Per the Hollywood Reporter, George Clooney will play a killer in Burn After Reading, a spy caper being helmed by Joel and Ethan Coen, with whom Clooney did O Brother, Where Are Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty.... Universal has grabbed the rights to Cobalt 60, a cult comic book set in a postapocalytpic world inhabited by mutants. Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) will direct.... Robert Zemeckis will release the Polar Express-like, digitally enhanced Beowulf, starring Angelina Jolie, in large-format 3-D on Nov. 16.... Per Variety, Sarah Jessica Parker has replaced Rachel Weisz opposite Dennis Quaid in Smart People.... Peter Sarsgaard will join future bro-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal in Rendition, director Gavin Hood's Tsotsi follow-up.... Anthony Mackie (Half Nelson) will play Olympic track-and-field legend Jesse Owens in a biopic shooting next summer.
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Since first gaining attention for his powerful — and frightening — turn as a murderous bigot in Boys Don't Cry, Peter Sarsgaard has repeatedly proven he's unafraid of challenging roles.
A computer genius who spends three days exploring the boundaries of sexual desire with a Vegas lap dancer? Check. He did that in The Center of the World, back in 2001. A quiet magazine editor who discovers his top writer is a fraudulent hack? See his critically acclaimed turn in last year's Shattered Glass.
Next up, in Kinsey (opening Friday), Sarsgaard ventures where few young actors dare to tread: the full-frontal nude scene. Asked if he was nervous about doing the full monty, the 33-year-old actor just smiles serenely.
"It didn't feel like anything," he says. "I mean, if I always thought about the people on the other end of the camera — as if it were like a tube going to audiences all over the world — then I would
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