Tag: Thandie Newton
Thomas McCarthy takes a role in ”2012”
Thomas McCarthy joins John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt, taking a role in Roland Emmerich‘s ”2012”
McCarthy will play the boyfriend of Peet, who is the ex-wife of Cusack’s character.
“As an actor, I’ve never worked on anything with this scale before, and I always go see these movies,” he said.
“And then there’s the director part of me. I get really excited about working with directors like this, who do things that are so wildly different from me [as writer and director]. And he really is. He works on a totally different canvas.”
Actors lined up to play Blair, Bush, Rice in Stone’s ‘W’
The Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd is tipped to be cast as Tony Blair in a forthcoming Oliver Stone biopic on the life of George Bush.
Thandie Newton, who was born in Zambia and raised in England, will play Condoleezza Rice in the Stone movie, W, which is due to start filming on 21 April.
Josh Brolin, who starred in No Country For Old Men will play Bush in the film, which ranges from his early relationship with his father, through the 1990-91 Gulf War to his own presidency.
Laura Bush will be played by Elizabeth Banks, star of The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
