After large online backlash from Sean Durkin‘s casting of Odessa A’zion for a key role in the 2000s-set A24 romantic drama “Deep Cuts,” they’ve found a replacement actress after A’zion stepped aside for an actor with Latin ancestry to tackle the part established in the original novel from author Holly Brickley.
Deadline has revealed in their casting update that on-the-rise actress Ariela Barer (“The Last of Us,” “How To Blow Up A Pipeline”) is being brought in to take over for A’zion, who also shared some kind words on social media.
“And a genuine major shoutout to Odessa A’zion for always leading with integrity and being an absolute real one for as long as I’ve known her,” Barer said in an Instagram stories post.
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They’ll be joining previously announced leads, Cailee Spaeny (“Civil War,” “Alien: Romulus”) and Drew Starkey (“Queer,” “Outer Banks”).
Publisher Penguin Random House shares the logline for the original “Deep Cuts” novel:
A love story about two people pulled apart by the same force that draws them together: music. It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy—who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it—can’t stop herself from overanalyzing the song, indulging what she knows to be her most annoying habit. But something is different tonight. The guy beside her at the bar, fellow student Joe Morrow, is a songwriter. And he could listen to Percy talk all night.
This new California-set romantic drama isn’t the only project coming from Durkin, as the busy filmmaker is returning to the small screen after the series remake of “Dead Ringers” (led by Rachel Weisz playing twins) with the upcoming FX series “Seven Sisters,” landing a full season order, which sees Elizabeth Olsen, Cristin Milioti, and others playing siblings.
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