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Stage veterans Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, and Nina Arianda have been added to the company of Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The movie will be a romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party will include a young engaged couple who are forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
The film will star Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, and Rachel McAdams, and also feature Tom Hiddleston, Corey Stoll, Mimi Kennedy, Kurt Fuller, and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Bates won an Academy Award for Misery and received Oscar nominations for Primary Colors and About Schmidt. Among her stage credits are ‘night, Mother on Broadway and Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune Off-Broadway.
She also starred in TV version of the Broadway musical Annie.
Sheen’s Broadway credits include Amadeus and Frost/Nixon, in which he played talk show host David Frost. Arianda recently concluded an acclaimed run in David Ives’ Venus in Fur at Classic Stage Company, for which she has received Lucille Lortel and Drama League Award nominations.
