Casting Notes: Olivia Wilde And Alicia Silverstone In Butter; Kevin Bacon Joins Steve Carell Comedy
The casting info continues topour inforJim Field Smith’s political satire calledButter. There’s already quite a lineup:Jennifer Garner,Rob Corddry,Ty Burrell,Ashley Greeneand more. NowOlivia Wilde(Tron Legacy) has been added, as hasAlicia Silverstone.
But there’s some confusion.Movielinereports that Wilde is cast as a tattooed stripper (with Betty Page bangs, no less) who is mistress to a butter-carving champion played by Ty Burrell.But previously we’d heardthat Rob Corddry was playing that role. Figuring that one out. Meanwhile, the wife of said champion, played by Jennifer Garner, decides to take the crown for herself, and must best a young girl played byYara Shahidi. Silverstone will be the adoptive mother of the girl. As mentioned before this is a satirical analog for the 2008 Democratic Iowa caucus. But am I the only one reminded of Diablo Cody based on the description of the stripper character ?
After the break, more cast for the Steve Carrel romcom formerly calledCrazy, Stupid Love.
Another film we’ve written aboutquite a bitalready is theSteve Carell/Ryan Goslingcomedy that has been going by the nameCrazy, Stupid Love. But several trade references to the film in the last couple weeks have reverted back to ‘untitled Dan Fogelman-Steve Carell project,’ so it looks like that title is off the books.
Bad Santawriters andI Love You, Phillip MorrisdirectorsJohn RequaandGlenn Ficarraare directing Carell and Gosling, andKevin Baconhas just joined the cast. He’ll play a co-worker of Carell’s wife, played byJulianne Moore. Bacon’s character is described as an alpha male who begins an affair with Moore. Sounds like a great, smarmy role for Bacon; he could crush that. [THR]
