Olympia Dukakis Grabs a Lesbian 'Thelma and Louise'
Filed under: Comedy, Casting, Scripts
Same-sex love is most definitely in the air. I already wrote about Julianne Moore and Annette Bening were coupling up for a new film today, but they're not the only ones. In a Thelma and Louise meets The Bucket List move, The Hollywood Reporter posts that Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker will star in a new road trip comedy from Thom Fitzgerald called Cloudburst.Dukakis and Fricker will play a couple who have been together for 30 years. Itching for a little adventure, the two "break out of a nursing home and head to Canada to get married, picking up a young, male hitchhiker along the way." I can't begin to count the ways these two films are great. Both have long-term lesbian couples, played by women with oodles of talent, and in this case, feature an older generation of actresses -- a theme which seems to be slowly gaining momentum in Hollywood as the boomers get older.
I've got to wonder -- are these gigs thanks to the anger incited by Prop 8? It's rare to get one LGBT film, let alone two at the same time. Whatever the case, it's a nice and refreshing change to see some originality heading towards Hollywood. Think Dukakis and Fricker can give Sarandon and Davis a run for their money?
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7-02-2009 @ 3:08PM
Christian M. Howell said...
I could never understand how gay people don't go out for roles like this. It's confusing that straight people will play gay but not really accept gays. Not that I'm really into women kissing, gay or not, but...it's curious how California just struck down Prop 8 and now we have these two lesbian movies.
Sometimes I hate the male of this species. OK, most of the time.
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