Claire Danes has a strange, ethereal quality to her that's plainly evident in Shopgirl, and I imagine so in Stardust, which I've yet to catch. There's no telling yet how or if that quality will be utilized in the cast of Me and Orson Welles, an adaptation of Robert Kaplow novel from the Dazed and Confused team of director Richard Linklater and Holly Gent Palmo, making her screenwriting debut. THR has the story.
They join Zac Efron and Ben Chaplin in the cast for the 1937-set movie, which centers on a high school student (Efron) who, while strolling the streets of New York, happens upon the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles.
He lands a bit part in "Julius Caesar," the production that catapulted Welles to the top, and spends the next week learning about life and love.
