Brad Pitt Joins Cast of 8; Event to Be Live-Streamed
Just when you thought Brad Pitt couldn’t any cooler, the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact announced that the award-winning actor will join the cast of the West Coast premiere reading of the Proposition 8 play, 8, which will be live-streamed via YouTube this Saturday, beginning at 7:45 p.m. Pacific. The production’s director, Rob Reiner, made the announcement via video, saying that proponents of Prop. 8 have been trying to hide what happened in those courtrooms, but this production exposes all the proceedings.
The staged reading is an unprecedented account of the U.S. district court trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Perry v. Brown), the suit filed by AFER to overturn Prop. 8, which stripped same-sex couples in California of the fundamental freedom to marry.
Brad Pitt will star as Judge Vaughn R. Walker, the man who found Prop. 8 unconstitutional, joining an already star-studded cast that includes George Clooney, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Chris Colfer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cleve Jones, George Takei, The Simpsons’ Yeardley Smith, and many more. The same-sex couples at the heart of the piece will be played by Christine Lahti and Jamie Lee Curtis (who will star as plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, a lesbian couple together for 11 years and the parents of four boys) and Glee’s Matthew Morrison and White Collar’s Matt Bomer (who will play plaintiffs Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, a gay couple together over 10 years).
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who wrote 8, and Reiner are both AFER founding board members. Black, the scribe behind Milk and J. Edgar, says he based 8 on the actual words of the trial transcripts, firsthand observations of the courtroom drama, and interviews with the plaintiffs and their families.
http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Entertainment_News/Brad_Pitt_Joins_Cast_of_8_Event_to_be_Live_Streamed_Saturday/
Mainly a FYI for when the live stream will happen on Youtube.
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