Rachel Weisz has been tapped to play Elizabeth Taylor in a biopic that will track the iconic star’s journey from actress to activist.

Biopics have always played well come Oscar season, and it looks like the upcoming Elizabeth Taylor biopic will be no exception.

First off, THR reported that the incredibly talented and Oscar-winning Rachel Weisz has been cast to play the iconic star.

In addition to the star power and talent onscreen, the film likewise boasts an impressive crew behind the scenes as well. The Elizabeth Taylor biopic comes to us from See-Saw Films, which produced The King’s Speech and Lion, shooting from a script by penned by Simon Beaufoy of Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours and directed by fast-rising female filmmaking duo Bert & Bertie, who gave us Troop Zero.

And though Elizabeth Taylor is well-known for her glamorous, scandalous and sometimes controversial life, the film — titled A Special Relationship — will shy away from that part of Taylor’s story and instead focus on her role in the fight against AIDS and how much it personally meant to her.

The film will focus on Elizabeth Taylor in the mid-1980s, when she hired a new personal assistant, Roger Wall, a gay man who grew up in poverty in the homophobic Deep South. Despite their different backgrounds, Elizabeth Taylor and Roger Wall developed a deep friendship that would alter the course of both of their lives.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Beaufoy’s script is taken from hours of interviews and exclusive conversations with the people who knew Taylor, and creates what the filmmakers have described as a “never-before-seen portrait of the real woman behind the violet eyes.”

In the 1980s, talking about AIDS wasn’t part of the mainstream and the government largely ignored the epidemic. Rather than sitting by while millions suffered, Taylor instead chose to speak out and against Ronald Reagan’s administration. In going “toe to toe with the leader of the free world,” she helped create a public call to arms against ignorance, bigotry and homophobia.