
By Romeo San Vicente
Brothers & Sisters Star Explores Virgin Territory
The gay brother on ABC's
Brothers & Sisters, straight (alas) British actor Matthew Rhys,
has a full schedule when his TV season ends.
He'll star opposite Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, and
Tim Roth in Virgin Territory.
The
film is about young and fabulous
Florentines sitting out the Black Plague in the Italian countryside,
then turn to playing legendary poet Dylan Thomas in The Best
Time of Our Lives for gay director John Maybury (Love Is
the Devil, The Jacket).
With a cast that also includes Cillian Murphy, Keira Knightley,
and Lindsay Lohan, count on Best Time to be an art-house
sensation with lots of Oscar buzz. (Linsday Lohan as Dylan Thomas's
wife? At least she's familiar with the insides of pubs.)
Virgin will be out by the end of 2007, with the Thomas biopic set
for 2008.
|