Los Angeles, July 23: ‘Kill Bill’ star Uma Thurman will play the heroic nun who rescued Ugandan schoolgirls forced into slavery in the film ‘Girl Soldier’ which is based on real life incidents.
The Hollywood beauty will star in the drama based on the 1996 incident which saw 140 schoolgirls being abducted from a boarding school in the African country by a band of armed rebels, reported Variety.
The girls were forced to fight as child soldiers or serve as sex slaves.
Thurman will play Sister Caroline, a teacher at the school, who tracked the rebels back to their camp and demanded the girls’ release.
–PTI