‘Game of Thrones’ Actress Keisha Castle-Hughes To Produce & Star In The Indie Film ‘Wellwood’
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) is attached to produce and star in Wellwood, a sci-fi indie that centers on a terminally ill Laura and her husband Nick, who makes an extraterrestrial discovery that he decides will cure his wife. Game of Thrones actress Castle-Hughes play Gracie Marsh, the skeptical and thorough local deputy to Nichols’s Sheriff Bradley, the small town’s de facto leader.
Lance E. Nichols, Camille Balsamo and Reid Collums also co-star. Production is underway in New Orleans with Eliza Hooper directing from a script by Collums. The project hails from studioADI with special effects artists Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. serving as exec producers.
Castle-Hughes, who recurred on HBO’s Game Of Thrones, was most recently was seen in Universal’s Thank You for Your Service and Discovery Channel’s limited series Manhunt: Unabomber.
She’s repped by Industry Entertainment and Innovative.
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