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True Blood costars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are expecting, their reps confirmed to EW today. The pregnancy is Paquin’s first; Moyer, 42, has two children from previous relationships. Paquin, 29, is due this fall.
Huge congratulations to Anna and Stephen!
Elijah Wood, well known by fantasy fans for his role in The Lord of the Rings, is aiming to please yet another niche. Wood is adapting Elliott Chaze’s 1953 crime novel Black Wings Has My Angel, and he has some intriguing talent attached. Screen Daily confirms that Anna Paquin, most notable for her role in True Blood, will co-star opposite the antagonist of Thor and The Avengers, Tom Hiddleston.
The thriller centers around a thief and a call girl whose lives are changed by an armored car heist, which in a way sounds like a historical noir version of The Town. That alone makes it a must-watch in my book, but it is a bit more complicated than that. Paquin will play the call girl Virginia, who follows a deadly but charming ex-con by the name of Tim Sunblade (most likely played by Hiddleston) to Colorado for a robbery, after meeting in a Mississippi motel.
The film is being written by both Barry Gifford and Christopher Peditto, who spent over a decade trying to secure the rights to the novel that’s been out of print for 50 years, with Alfonso Pineda Ulloa being attached as director. Wood, who is also producing, is slated to co-star in the film but his role remains a mystery, but with both Paquin and Hiddleston in the mix, Black Wings Has My Angel, which is expected to shoot in September, will be a welcomed revival of the often overlooked crime noir genre.
Margaret is Kenneth Lonergan’s raw and affecting character study of Lisa (Anna Paquin), a high school kid of privilege (and of divorce), grappling with guilt after an impulsive act contributes to a fatal accident.
As Lisa struggles to articulate her culpability, and atone for it, this tempestuous 17-year-old sucks her mother, friends, and teachers into and through a long teenage tunnel of hell. Is that a ray of light at the end?
Paquin is electrifying in this 21/2-hour film shot in 2005 and plagued by editing-room creative differences and lawsuits ever since. Like its central character, it is unfinished, a work-in-progress. Yet it is urgently alive with questions of conscience. Lisa sees morality in black and white while most of the adults around her see shades of gray, or are too involved in their own problems to help her work through hers.
Like a physicist precisely charting the dynamics of cause-and-effect, Lonergan (writer/director of You Can Count on Me) shows how Lisa’s one small action has multiple, huge consequences on others.
Lonergan, who wrote the screenplay in the wake of the 9/11 attack in New York, frames Lisa as a trauma victim struggling to put herself back together again. She represents the New Yorkers who struggled to do the same in the aftermath of the attacks.
In this version of the film, which has gone from editing room to courtroom and back again, the narrative jumps from heated confrontation to corrosive encounter. These are punctuated by lyrical panoramas of the New York skyline that provide breathing room between confrontations, but otherwise are vestigial.
Besides Paquin, who delivers a once-in-a-lifetime performance as the maddeningly inconsistent Lisa, also wrenchingly fine are Jeannie Berlin as the best friend of the deceased and J. Smith-Cameron as Lisa’s actress mother.
Margaret (which takes its title from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins about an adolescent grieving her loss of innocence) is not a film for everyone. But its hard look at a young, morally confused woman struggling for clarity is nothing short of riveting.
With a few weeks left before True Blood begins filming again, Anna Paquin has signed on to star in Free Ride, along with Drea de Matteo, in Sarasota, FL.
The movie, which began filming this week, takes place in late 1970s Florida and focuses on a mother (played by Paquin) who, while fleeing an abusive relationship, turns to the marijuana trade to support her daughters.
According to a recent casting call they are still looking for extras too. Check out the details below:
Seeking Extras for a SAG FILM shooting in SARASOTA beginning late October thru late November. Looking for all types, all sizes, all ages, all ethnicities. Really unique faces a bonus! This is set in 1978– men with longer hair and facial hair a plus! Tough Biker types, clean cut types, kids, teens, families, and seniors. This will be a very fun project with well known industry professionals!
TO SUBMIT:
Please E-MAIL a current and clear photo of yourself.
Put in SUBJECT line: Name/ Male or Female/ Age
Put in BODY of E-mail: Your contact info & sizes.
Send all info to:
ICastingExtras@gmail.comIf you spot Free Ride filming in Florida, let us know about it at olv@onlocationvacations.com!
Variety reports that Anna Paquin (“True Blood”) and Ryan Phillippe will star in Nu Image/Millenium Films’ Straight A’s.
Production on the comedy starts today in Shreveport, Louisiana under the direction of James Cox. Dave Cole wrote the script for the film, which is described as follows:
“Phillippe portrays a man who’s been in and out of rehab for 10 years and is haunted by the ghost of his dead mother pressing him to return home to the family he turned his back on years ago. Outfitted with nothing more than a bag of pills and a sack of weed, he trots back to Shreveport, only to be faced with his brother’s wife, who’s still pining for him, her first love.”
Holly Wiersma and Rene Besson are producing, with Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, John Thompson and Lati Grobman executive producing.
