Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle’s upcoming film continues to grow its cast!
As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Jean Smart, who is generating quite the Emmy Awards buzz is set to join the all-star cast of Babylon, the ode to Hollywood’s golden age that Damien Chazelle wrote and is directing for Paramount Pictures.
Smart joins Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie, Academy Award winnerBrad Pitt and Diego Calva, along with Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Katherine Waterston, Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, Flea, Rory Scovel, Samara Weaving, Eric Roberts, P.J. Byrne and Damon Gupton, Olivia Wilde, Spike Jonze, Phoebe Tonkin and Tobey MaguireWritten by Chazelle and set in the late 1920s during the movie industry’s transition from silent films to talkies, Babylon explores the rise and fall of multiple characters and has been described as “The Great Gatsby on steroids.”
Sources say Smart is playing Hollywood journalist-critic who can make or break careers, in what sounds like a Hedda Hopper type role.