Game of Thrones actress Carice van Houten has joined Stephan James , Jason Sudeikis , Jeremy Irons , and William Hurt in the forthcoming biopic on track and field star Jesse Owens , titled Race .
She will play infamous German director Leni Riefenstahl , who helmed 1935’s Triumph of the Will , a Nazi propaganda documentary.
Starring Stephan James as Owens, the sports-drama film is currently shooting in Berlin, where the master athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics and “ single-handedly crushed Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy .”
Directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse , Race is set to premiere on April 8, 2016 in the U.S.