We already had a little chat about this project, but it's always the right time to update an upcoming Stephen Frears‘ Lay The Favorite, right?
So, check this out, lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones has joined the cast of this movie, or, if you prefer, she joins the project that already stars Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall. Not bad team at all, admit it!
So, as we previously reported, The Town star, Rebecca Hall plays Raymor, who chronicled her years working in the world of Vegas sports gambling. Willis on the other hand, plays Raymor's mentor Dink Heimowitz, character described as “lovable, irascible, and big-bellied.” Now, according to the latest reports, Zeta-Jones is set to star as Heimowitz' wife.
I'm sure you already know the description, but let's repeat it once again:
“It's hard not to like the breezy, ingenuous voice of this plucky protagonist who proves she's game for any kind of new experience. Hailing from Ohio, Raymer eventually made her way to Las Vegas when she was 24 and found a lucrative position assisting a Queens-born, Stuyvesant High School-educated gambling operator, Dink Heimowitz.
The lovable, irascible, big-bellied Dinky had shucked life as a bookmaker back in New York, having run into trouble, for professional sports gambling; he put Raymer and the other motley staff on the phones setting up bets for all kinds of sports matchups (baseball, football, horse racing, hockey) in order to find a line that gave him an edge. Dinky referred Raymer to a high-flying bookie on Long Island, Bernard Rose, who had his own offshore network.
As girl Friday Raymer fetched doughnuts, placed calls, and acted as a runner, making wads of dough, but mostly Raymer cherished working among the assortment of gambling types, the low-end hustlers and misfits she chronicles with evident tenderness.”
Filming on Lay The Favorite was originally going to take place in New York and Las Vegas in April, but now it has now moved to New Orleans for Louisiana's preferable financial incentives.
We'll keep an eye on this, so make sure you stay tuned!
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