Thurman laments lost Kubrick role

Uma Thurman has admitted that she regrets not being able to work with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.

Speaking to MTV, the actress said: "I was going to make a film with him - for a long time I was scheduled to make a film with him."

The project in question, Wartime Lies, focused on a Jewish woman and her nephew who disguised themselves as Catholics to avoid the Nazis.

"I was contracted to do it and things happened and he shelved the film. He never made the film," Thurman explained.

Kubrick chose to postpone Wartime Lies in the early '90s due to similarities with Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, a decision Thurman called "devastating".

She added: "It was devastating because it was an incredible part. It would have been the part of my career, the best part I ever had been offered or had written for me, or anything."

Kubrick, whose diverse body of work includes 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, died in 1999 after completing Eyes Wide Shut.

Thurman recently said she turned down a part in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.