Lost star
Emilie de Ravin has joined the cast of
Michael Mann‘s
Public Enemies. The Australian actress, who plays Claire in the ABC drama, will play a supporting role opposite
Johnny Depp and
Christian Bale in the movie. The film, based on Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43, tells the story of the US government's attempts to catch notorious bank robber John Dillinger (Depp). Christian Bale plays FBI agent Melvin Purvis, with Avatar's Stephen Lang as the head of the Texas Rangers and Billy Crudup as FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.
David Wenham, Stephen Graham, Marion Cotillard, Branka Katic, Channing Tatum,
Giovanni Ribisi and
Stephen Dorff also star. Shooting recently began in Wisconsin.