Zsa Zsa Zemeckis is making ready to channel Romeo and Juliet with a forthcoming function.
The actress is ready to star in writer-director Alyssa Rallo Bennett’s tragic romance State-Crossed Lovers, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered. Zemeckis, whose father is Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, will make her lead function debut with the film that hails from Stonestreet Studios and I Ain’t Playin’ Movies.
State-Crossed Lovers is at present in pre-production and slated to start filming this summer season. The function facilities on Zsa Zsa Zemeckis as Mila Hart, a secretly pregnant 17-year-old coping with conservative mother and father and stringent legal guidelines dictating her future. Whereas navigating a passionate relationship along with her boyfriend in his 20s, Mila is confronted with difficult truths about her upbringing and should make powerful selections relating to her future.
Rallo Bennett (The Arrival, ReRUN) helms the indie film from a script she co-wrote with Gary O. Bennett. She produces State-Crossed Lovers alongside Liz Ortiz, whereas Angela Mickey of Liz Lewis Casting oversees casting. With its concentrate on two younger lovers dealing with hurdles attributable to household and society, the mission has been described as within the vein of William Shakespeare’s traditional tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
“When Zsa Zsa read for the role, I was immediately struck by the intelligence and restraint she brought to Mila,” Rallo Bennett says. “She has an incredible ability to balance the character’s rebellious passion with the emotional conflict and vulnerability underneath it. Mila is constantly navigating impossible choices, and Zsa Zsa captured that tension in a way that felt both grounded and deeply compelling.”
Zemeckis’ earlier function credit embody Here, reverse Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and Soar. She is represented by TCA Mgmt.
