No More Doggie Business, Zegers is Ready to ‘Rock’ You

That Air Bud kid sure grew up fast.  No longer cheering on an unusually athletic
golden retriever, former child-actor Kevin Zegers’ career took a vital turn
with his role as Toby, the son of a pre-op male-to-female transsexual, in
Transamerica.  According to Variety, the handsome 23-year-old will be starring
alongside Jason Ritter in the upcoming indie rock-u-drama The Perfect Age of
Rock n’ Roll.

Zegers will play a rock star whose second album takes a
major flop, thus prompting him to hide away in his Long
Island hometown.  Loyal to
its title, there will be plenty of music, as musicians Billy Morrison, Pinetop
Perkins, Hubert Sumlin and Sugar Blue will be making appearances.

No stranger to musically-inclined pics, Spike Lee is signed
on as exec producer.  The pic will be
directed by Scott Rosenbaum, who also penned the screenplay.  Additionally featured in the rock pic are
Peter Fonda, Taryn Manning and Lauren Holly.

Production has begun in New York,
New Jersey and Los Angeles.

Zegers has five additional projects on his plate, including the
action/thriller Fifty Dead Men Walking, based on the real story of a man from Belfast recruited by the British police, starring Jim
Sturgess and releasing in the UK
in October.  Zegers will also star in
Lighthouse, based off of an Edgar Allan Poe short story, currently in
production.