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WHOGOTTHEROLE.com recently had the chance to catch up with the always hirable Paul Giamatti to talk about his upcoming role in Twelve Years A Slave, a project he found to be both interesting and challenging.
Due out sometime in 2013, Twelve Years a Slave marks Steve McQueen‘s return to the director’s chair, starring the likes of Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch and Paul Giamatti. Of course, this isn’t the Steve McQueen you’re immediately thinking of. | Full Story
Production is underway for Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years Slave as shooting continues in New Orleans over the past few weeks. McQueen has enlisted an A-list cast that he can trust to deliver the intensity for this high drama slavery biopic and continues to do so with his latest addition to the cast.
Michael K. Williams aka Omar from The Wire aka Chalky White from Boardwalk Empire has joined the cast. There’s not much on his character at this point, but Williams will be playing a mutinous slave named Robert. | Full Story
Director Steve McQueen has landed three more actors for his upcoming historical drama Twelve Years A Slave.
McQueen has piled on Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, and Garret Dillahunt to an already impressive roster that includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, (who will play the lead role of Northup), Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ruth Negga, Paul Dano, Taran Killam, and Scoot McNairy.
Giamatti will play Freeman, a man who rules the slaves once they reach New Orleans. | Full Story
Paul Dano has booked a role on Steve McQueen’s upcoming Twelve Years A Slave. He’ll star Opposite Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Twelve Years A Slave is based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 autobiography about a free black man from Washington DC. The man was promised a job playing the violin in circus and tricked and dragged to Louisiana to be sold into slavery. There he stayed for 12 years picking cotton until he was rescued. | Full Story
Chiwetel Ejiofor will be playing a slave in Steve McQueen ’Twelve Years a Slave.’ A autobiography written in the 1853 by Solomon Northup. Northup tell his story being a man from New York, being kidnapped and forced to become a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing. Steve McQueen is a british director that’s final getting some overdue attention. His debut film ‘Hunger’ about the Irish hunger strike manage to bring home a award at Cannes in 2008. | Full Story
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