Sienna Miller and Chloe Sevigny Join Whit Stillman's 'Love and Friendship'; Sevigny Tweets #Horror

It was a lengthy 13-year wait between Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco and 2011's Damsels in Distress, and while the director has circled a couple of other projects, one has definitely gone to the head of the pack. Last year we learned he was planning to adapt Jane Austen's epistolary short, Lady Susan, only to learn that Stillman also planned to turn it into a novel titled Love & Friendship: An Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novella Concerning the Beautiful Lady Susan Vernon, Her Loves and Friendships, and the Strange Antagonism of the DeCourcy Family.  But the movie is still on the way, and Stillman has found his first two leading ladies, including one familiar face.

According to The Herald (via ThePlaylist), Sienna Miller and The Last Days of Disco's Chloe Sevigny will star in the film about the manipulative Lady Susan Vernon (Miller), a manipulative schemer using her looks to find entrap the perfect husband. Meanwhile she's also looking to marry off her shy and troublesome daughter. Sevigny will play Lady Susan's confidante, Alicia Johnson.

Given that this is Stillman, we can probably expect him to have a slightly altered view of the material. Filming on Love and Friendship is set to begin this summer.

Meanwhile, Sevigny has also lined up a new horror film titled....*ahem*....#Horror. Seriously. The title is a friggin' hashtag. Damn you, Twitter marks!! The directorial debut by Tara Subkoff co-stars Timothy Hutton, Taryn Manning, and Natasha Lyonne in what is being described as a "scandalous noir thriller". Yeah, #whatever. 

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Chloe Sevigny joins 'Lovelace' biopic; Demi Moore drops out

As expected, of the two competing biopics on Deep Throat pornstar Linda Lovelace, the one to gain the most traction is the one featuring Amanda Seyfried in the title role. Some of that has to do with seeing the star of such tween hits as Letters to Juliet and Dear John in a much more "adult" role, but also it has to do with the phenomenal cast that directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have put together. Until yesterday that cast included Demi Moore, who was set to play feminist activist, Gloria Steinem. Moore dropped out to attend to personal issues, some health related and others I'm sure are Kutcher-inflicted.

While not filling the role Moore vacated, THR reports that Chloe Sevigny(Kids) has joined the cast, playing a feminist journalist working for a men's magazine, sent to discover who the real Linda Lovelace was. With a good deal of the story being presented in flashback as Lovelace gives an interview, it's possible Sevigny may be the one doing the chronicling.

Lovelace stars Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth, Sharon Stone, Debi Mazar, Wes Bentley,Romeo Brown, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, and a cameo by James Franco as Hugh Hefner.




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