Viola Davis Puts her ‘Trust’ in Indie Film

I’m wouldn’t necessarily call her the Parker Posey indie girl of today, but since Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris and Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven, Viola Davis is taking on more supporting cast pinch hitter in independent films. The actress who essentially got her start in film with bit roles in Soderbergh’s Out of Sight and Traffic, has just signed up for a pair of indie films.

Davis will be featured in Ryan Fleck’s adaptation of Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Thing for Focus Features. The story is described as a young-adult One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and centers on a clinically depressed 15-year-old who checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life. Davis will play the psychiatrist who helps him understand his anxieties and provides him with the help he needs. Filming is pegged for sometime soon.

Davis will most likely board David Schwimmer’s Trust right afterwards. An uncharacteristic project for Millennium Films (indie company that sticks to genre fair usually involving Sylvester Stallone), this revolves around a family (Catherine Keener and Clive Owen) who must deal with the ramifications after their 14-year-old daughter (Liana Liberato) is victimized by an adult who gained her trust posing as a teenager on a chat room. Davis will play the counselor assigned to the girl’s case.