French director of Amelie looking for boy for top role in new film
By Michael D. Reid, timescolonist.com
December 19, 2011
photo: McClatchy News Service
If you're a young actor with the right stuff, Jean-Pierre Jeunet might have a Christmas gift for you.
The French filmmaker of Amelie, The City of Lost Children and Alien Resurrection fame is on the lookout for fresh talent.
Casting director Lucie Robitaille, whose credits include Incendies, Source Code and The Barbarian Invasions, is seeking boys from ages seven to 12 who could play the title character in Jeunet's next film, The Selected Work of T.S. Spivet. Robitaille will also be looking at actors suitable for the supporting role of Layton, a Caucasian character between seven and nine years old.
The story focuses on T.S. Spivet, a 12-year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions who lives on a ranch with his eccentric, beetles-obsessed mother, his cowboy father and a 14-year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. Without telling his family, he takes a freight train from Montana to Washington, D.C., after he gets a call from the Smithsonian Institution inviting him to come to accept a prize for his discovery of a perpetual motion machine.
The screen adaptation of Reif Larsen's bestselling novel is a co-production of Montreal-based BBR-Filmarto and France's Epithete. Filming is scheduled to take place next July through October in Montreal, Alberta and Washington, D.C.
Potential candidates should send a photo and resumé including details such as age, height, weight, address and contact numbers to spivetvan@gmail.com. Only pre-selected candidates will be called to audition, and it's essential that all children have parental authorization before submitting for the project, Robitaille said.
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