Trailer to ‘The Actor’ starring André Holland and Gemma Chan
Neon has released the trailer to ‘The Actor,’ directed by Duke Johnson and starring André Holland and Gemma Chan. Neon will release “The Actor” exclusively in theaters on March 14.
Paul Cole (Holland) stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here. Without a sense of identity or purpose, he starts from scratch and begins courting a local costume designer Edna (Chan). As bits and pieces of his past slowly emerge, he attempts to find his way home, but time is slippery, appearances can’t be trusted and it’s unclear which of his
May Calamawy, Asim Chaudhry, Joe Cole, Fabien Frankel, Olwen Fouéré, Edward Hogg, Toby Jones, Youssef Kerkour, Simon McBurney, Tanya Reynolds, Tracey Ullman and Scott Alexander Young also star.
The film is based on a Donald E. Westlake novel that the legendary mystery writer never published in his lifetime. It was written in 1963 and couldn’t find a publisher, and was later shopped around in the late 1970s, by which point Westlake had deemed it too dated. After the writer died in 2008, a manuscript was discovered and published in 2010 by Hard Case Crime. And now that once lost story has become a major motion picture.
Johnson directed the stop-motion “Anomalisa” with Charlie Kaufman (who executive produced “The Actor”) and is making his live-action feature debut here.
