Sevigny wed to 'Love' for HBO, Playtone
Chloe Sevigny has been tapped to co-star in HBO's drama pilot "Big Love," from Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone Prods.
Rodrigo Garcia has come on board to direct.
Additionally, the Oscar-nominated actress has been cast opposite Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening in the Killer Films/Number 9 Films indie feature "Mrs. Harris," financed by HBO, and in Lars von Trier's "Manderlay."
"Big Love" centers on a polygamist's relationship with his three wives. Sevigny will play one of the wives.
Will Scheffer and Mark V. Olsen penned the script and are executive producing with Hanks and Goetzman. Production is scheduled to begin in April.
Garcia made his directorial debut with "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her." His series credits include HBO's "Carnivale," "Six Feet Under" and "The Sopranos" and NBC's "Boomtown."
"Mrs. Harris" tells the story of Jean Harris (Bening), who in 1980 killed her boyfriend, Dr. Herman Tarnower (Kingsley), inventor of the Scarsdale diet.
Sevigny will play a nurse and a lover of Tarnower.
Phyllis Nagy is directing from her own script.
"Manderlay," the second installment in von Trier's trilogy "U, S and A," following "Dogville," is set in the South during the 1930s and centers on slavery. The project follows Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), the character played in "Dogville" by Nicole Kidman.
Several cast members of "Dogville," including Sevigny, will appear in "Manderlay" playing new characters. Sevigny will play the daughter of the Manderlay plantation owner. Also tapped for the project are Danny Glover and John C. Reilly.
Sevigny was nominated for an Oscar in 2000 for "Boys Don't Cry."
In addition to "Dogville," her recent credits include "Shattered Glass," "The Brown Bunny" and "Party Monster."