Jessica Joins The Cast of The Help

According to reports from the Hollywood Reporter, actress Jessica Chastain has joined the cast of the upcoming DreamWorks film “The Help,” based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett.

The script for “The Help” is written by Tate Taylor who will also direct the film, which tells the story of black maids working in white homes during the 60s in Jackson, Miss. The film will also star Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Octavia Spencer.

Chastain will play Celia Foote, a Southern woman with low self-esteem who is constantly trying to fit in with the high society women who surround her. Filming will begin at the end of July.

Chastain, who played Brad Pitt’s wife in the upcoming film “Tree of Life,” will also appear in “The Debt,” playing a young Helen Mirren. She also recently finished “The Fields,” with Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

In 2009, Chastain played Desdemona in a production of OTHELLO at The Public Theatre and also appeared in Richard Nelson’s RODNEY’S WIFE at Playwrights Horizons.

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posted on Jun 25 · by Michelle · Comments Off · Projects

Michael Shannon Shooting New Movie in Northeast Ohio

Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon is in Northeast Ohio shooting a new film.
The actor, who picked up an Oscar nod for playing the bizarre dinner guest in “Revolutionary Road,” will be here for the next month filming an untitled drama.

The film is being directed by Jeff Nichols (“Shotgun Stories”), and produced by Chagrin Falls native Tyler Davidson.
Davidson has been good to Northeast Ohio. He also was a producer on “The Year That Trembled,” based on the Scott Lax novel, which was shot here, and his next film, “Swedish Auto,” was the opening night feature at the Cleveland International Film Festival in 2007.
The new movie, which co-stars Jessica Chastain and Kathy Baker, is scheduled to shoot in Chardon, Elyria, Grafton, and LaGrange.

posted on Jun 18 · by Michelle · Comments Off · Projects