Casting Notes: Elias Koteas in Winnie; Jon Tenney in Green Lantern; Fred Ward in 30 Minutes or Less; Jessica Chastain in The Help
Posted on Friday, June 25th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
Elias Koteas has never been one of the more high-profile character actors out there, but he’s always one of my favorites. (Not because of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where he played Casey Jones, but for films like Crash and The Adjuster.) Directors like David Fincher and Martin Scorsese have started using Koteas, which has increased his profile, and now he’s cast in Winnie, the biopic about Winnie Mandela.
He joins Terrence Howard and Jennifer Hudson, who play Nelson and Winnie Mandela. Koteas will be De Vries, “an overzealous officer in the apartheid police stage who rises in power and becomes intent on stopping Winnie and the black anti-apartheid activists from gaining power.” So not a role that audiences will look kindly on, but a major role. I’ll take it. [THR]
After the break, Green Lantern gets a dad and Fred Ward and Jessica Chastain book new roles. Read More »
