Evan Rachel Wood to Star in 'One Thousand Paper Cranes'

Evan Rachel Wood is taking on a new role.

The 31-year-old Westworld actress will star in One Thousand Paper Cranes, Variety reported on Friday (May 3).

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Evan will star in the movie with Jim Sturgess and Shinobu Terajima.

The movie tells the story of Hiroshima survivor Sadako Sasaki and author Eleanor Coerr, who wrote the bestselling children’s book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.

The film will tell “the true story of Sasaki, who was a 2-year-old in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945. She was later diagnosed with leukemia caused by exposure to radiation from the blast. She drew strength from a Japanese legend that, if she folded 1,000 paper cranes, she would be granted a wish, which in her case was to live. Coerr, an aspiring journalist and young mother, learns of the girl and becomes determined to share her story with the world.”