Want to be in a Kristen Stewart movie? Here’s your chance

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 22/06/2017 (2499 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

A Winnipeg company is looking for people to join the cast of a provocative Kristen Stewart film shooting in the city this summer. Titled JT LeRoy, the project is about a woman who pretended to be a hustler in a series of books and public appearances.

Stewart will play the lead role of Savannah Knoop, who herself played the role of former truck-stop male prostitute JT LeRoy in public. Stewart, best known for the Twilight series, will star opposite Laura Dern (Jurassic Park, Wild at Heart), who plays Savannah’s sister-in-law Laura Albert, who created the character. Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) is also in the announced cast as a French actress who brings JT to Paris.

Jim Heber Casting is looking for “diverse submissions” from locals over the age of 18 to fill multiple roles during the shoot, which is expected to run between July 17 and Aug. 21.

No previous acting experience is necessary. Because a few of the roles have French dialogue, applicants who can speak French should mention that in their applications.

Applicants are asked to email a recent photo of themselves and their contact information as soon as possible to jimhebercasting@gmail.com.

Auditions are scheduled for next Thursday. Only selected submissions will be contacted with more information and location details.

The film is produced locally by Buffalo Gal Pictures. According to the Internet Movie Database, the film was written and will be directed by Justin Kelly, whose past features include a couple of James Franco films, I Am Michael, about a gay activist who became a straight Christian pastor, and King Cobra, a drama based on the true story of a male porn star. JT LeRoy is based on Knoop’s 2008 memoir about the deception, Girl Boy Girl.

Stewart’s visibility got boosted last year when she hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live and recalled in her monologue how, back in 2012, current U.S. President Donald Trump encouraged (via Twitter) her former boyfriend Robert Pattinson to dump Stewart. Stewart wryly added Trump wouldn’t like her any better now “because I’m, like, so gay, dude.”

It will be Stewart’s first Manitoba film shoot, although she shot the 2007 horror film The Messengers in the Qu’Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan. Dern shot the 2015 film Bravetown in Manitoba opposite Josh Duhamel and Lucas Till.

randall.king@freepress.mb.ca

Twitter: @FreepKing