MUMBAI: Ashley Judd has been added to the cast of Divergent, the big-screen adaptation of Veronica Roth‘s dystopian YA bestseller.

Judd, who recently walked back on her bid for one of Kentucky‘s U.S. Senate seats, will play Natalie Prior, the mother of Divergent‘s heroine Tris (Shailene Woodley).
 
The film, that has gone on the sets in Chicago last week, has Aaron Eckhart reportedly playing Judd‘s onscreen husband Andrew while Ansel Elgort (who made his big-screen debut in Carrie)will play her son Caleb.

The film is being helmed by Neil Burger who had earlier directed Limitless and The Illusionist, with a script written by Vanessa Taylor.

Divergent is scheduled to open on 21 March, next year.