Star (January 11, 2010) reports that both Cate Blanchett and Keira Knightley have turned down Madonna's request to star as Wallis Simpson in the next film she hopes to direct, a biopic on the late Duchess of Windsor's not unexciting life. An unnamed source tattles, "There are worries that Madonna will get too involved because she wrote the script and the music. And there's the concern that she may want to take a small role which would discredit the film." Wouldn't her directing it discredit the film? (I'm not saying this as me, I'm saying this as anyone in Hollywood who would find her taking a small role a discredit.)