Could this be the face of a monster? If producers happen to have come across his emotionally-detached character in Antonio Campos’ gem of a film Afterschool, then I think we might have found our Kevin in Lynne Ramsay’s long waited film which begins lensing this month.
In Campos’ film, Ezra Miller played a teen living in a boarding school, far away from any kind of supervision and stuck with an addiction that is left untreated. I threw some names/faces in the hat prior to this for possible casting choices, but I think Miller is the right stuff for We Need to Talk About Kevin, it might actually be a cake walk for the actor, not because he has played a murderer of the Columbine kind before, but because the role will ask for a kid who is missing a couple of nuts and bolts. Here is the sample of his first perf, about three years back.
Co-scripted by Ramsay and writer Rob Festinger, this is an adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s prize-winning book which follows Kevin and his mother, Eva (Tilda Swinton). After Kevin goes on a killing spree just days before his 16th birthday, Eva is forced to question whether she ever loved her son and how much she is to blame for what he did. John C. Reilly is playing the reclusive father Franklin.
Miller was recently seen in Raymond de Felitta’s City Island (was released last week), and will next be seen in Bryan Goluboff’s Beware the Gonzo which will be showing at Tribeca shortly. Miller is repped by Paradigm, who happen to be the sales reps on both films.
