Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange are teaming up for the fact-based drama "Grey Gardens," Variety reports.

The story centres on two eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy who made news when the health department threatened to raid their dishevelled New York estate.

Barrymore take on the role of Little Edie, while Lange will play her mother Big Edie Bouvier Beale, the cousin and aunt of Kennedy Onassis.

No shooting schedule has been announced and a director has yet to be signed for the film.

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