If there is one thing that I do like about the self-congratulatory Golden Globes is witnessing new faces invited to the star-studded filled, Wolfgang Pucks' served dinner tables. This year we would have seen Amy Ryan (Keane) rub elbows with million dollar smiles. But with the writer's strike that ain't happening. How much does a couple of seconds on LIVE television worth to the future purse of an up-and-coming actor? Not sure… but I imagine it does help the agent's ego.
The actress who got tons of kudos for Gone Baby Gone is now (along with Greg Kinnear) taking up a role a major role in Paul Greengrass's take on Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Shooting today in Spain for Universal Pictures.
Based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book this is drawn from his own experiences as Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post, deals with the chaotic attempts of the Americans to set up a provisional government in the area around Saddam's palace.
Variety reports that Damon plays an officer who teams with a senior CIA officer to search for evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Ryan will play a New York Times foreign correspondent sent to Iraq to investigate the U.S. government's WMD claims. Kinnear plays another CIA officer. Antoni Corone has been cast as a colonel.
