Studio 60 actors find more work
Here’s where you’ll be seeing some of your Studio 60 favorites in upcoming TV shows and movies:
Sarah Paulson (Harriet) nabbed a major role in Will Eisner’s The Spirit, a comic-book movie directed by Frank Miller. Amid a cast of femme fatales played by Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega and Jaime King, Paulson will play the true love of the film’s titular hero (played by Gabriel Macht), who comes back from the dead to fight crime. Her character is also the daughter of the police commissioner, and seems likely to be in frequent peril, but we’ll have to wait until the film comes out in 2009 to find out.
Bradley Whitford (Danny) will be appearing in a four-hour miniseries about global warming, according to a report in Variety. Looks like this is one of his weaselly bad-guy roles — he plays an oil-industry lobbyist opposite Neve Campbell as an oil-company worker who’s in clandestine cahoots with (gasp!) environmentalists. No indication of when, or on what network, it will turn up.
Merritt Wever (Suzanne) has a small but pivotal role in Michael Clayton, the legal drama starring George Clooney that opens nationwide in the U.S. this weekend. She’s also in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild, which debuts October 19.
Steven Weber (Jack) will appear as a love interest for Rachel Griffiths’ Sarah in Brothers & Sisters, ABC’s Sunday night family drama (and the other show I blog about for 451 Press, conveniently enough). His character, Graham Finch, will start out as a consultant for the Walker family business and then apparently moves on to personal consulting for Sarah, who’s recently separated from her husband. According to TV Guide’s Ausiello Report, Weber’s character may Have a Secret. Now that he’s in with the Walkers, though, he’ll find that secrets don’t stay secret for very long. (And if that’s not enough to get you to try Brothers & Sisters, did I mention that Rob Lowe stars as a senator? A Republican senator, okay, but he still gets lots of West Wing-y speeches.)
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