Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch Panel
VARIETY – Grace Van Patten, daughter of “Sopranos” director Tim Van Patten, said all her time growing up in Hollywood didn’t prepare her for director Noah Baumbach’s audition strategy. When she went to read for a part in the upcoming “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” she was handed 15 pages of sides and given 10 minutes to prepare. “You’ve just got to tell yourself that everybody is in the same position,” she said. “You just gotta breathe.”
It wasn’t until Baumbach told her that she had the part that she learned who her co-stars would be: Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, among other luminaries. “He gave me all four names at once,” she said. “I couldn’t handle myself.” Like many of Baumbach’s previous films, “The Meyerowitz Stories” depicts a complicated family relationship that is at turns harrowing and hilarious. It won the Palm D’or at Cannes in May.
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Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch Panel
Grace Signs with WME
Actress Grace Van Patten Inks With WME
DEADLINE – WME has signed actress Grace Van Patten, who starred in Adam Leon’s romantic comedy Tramps, opposite Callum Turner, which was released on Netflix.
Van Patten co-stars in Noah Baumbach’s dramatic comedy The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), with Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman. It premiered at Cannes this year and will be available to stream on Netflix this fall. In addition, she’ll appear in A24’s crime thriller Under the Silver Lake, written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, starring Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough.
Other credits include the indie horror film Central Park, from Justin Reinsilber and the upcoming The Wilde Wedding with Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, and Minnie Driver.
She will continue to be managed by Brookside Artist Management.
Variety Announces 10 Actors to Watch for 2017
Variety Announces 10 Actors to Watch for 2017
VARIETY – Variety is pleased to announce its annual list of 10 Actors to Watch, an honor the publication has bestowed since 1998.
This year’s honorees will be feted in the Oct. 3 issue of Variety, in conjunction with coverage of the Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs Oct. 5-9. This marks the festival’s 25th Anniversary and the sixth year they have collaborated with Variety.
“When the fall film festival season arrives, it’s not just a great time to celebrate world cinema’s latest artistic achievements, it’s also time to survey the international movie landscape for major new acting talents,” says Variety’s Vice President/Executive Editor, Steven Gaydos. “Celebrating its 20th year on the scene, the most important showcase of exciting emerging actors and actresses is Variety‘s 10 Actors to Watch, now in its sixth year in conjunction with the Hamptons Film Festival.”
Adds HIFF Artistic Director David Nugent, “The Hamptons International Film Festival has been shining a light on emerging actors for over 15 years now. Partnering with Variety for the sixth year now to recognize this group of talented actors for the incredible work they have done thus far is an honor. With another recent honoree, Mahershala Ali, having won an Academy Award last year, we are thrilled to see this group of actors continue to blossom.”
This year’s 10 Actors to Watch are:
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