Driving excessive from field workplace hit Obsession, star Michael Johnston is making strikes within the agenting world. The actor has signed with Gersh in what’s described as a aggressive scenario to land the star.
Johnston was with out an agent amid the rollout of Obsession, which has turn into an outsized hit, incomes him an in a single day excessive profile. Focus acquired the indie film out of September’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, and since bowing Could 15, has turn into the specialty label’s top-grossing film of all time, each globally and domestically, with a worldwide haul of $234.5 million.
Earlier than Obsession, Johnston was a relative unknown, with credit in Teen Wolf, the indie characteristic Slash, and Lionsgate’s Endangered Species. He landed in Obsession after filmmaker Curry Barker struggled to seek out the right actor to play Bear, the protagonist who makes an ill-fated want that his crush will love him greater than something on the planet.
However casting director Skyler Zurn remembered Johnston from auditions on different tasks and confirmed Barker some outdated tape of the actor. The filmmaker referred to as him in for chemistry reads with actresses vying for the position of Nikki, and when Johnston and eventual co-star Inde Navarrette learn collectively, the casting was clear. Nobody knew how the journey of the $750,000 would go on, with the movie changing into the primary film since 1982’s E.T.: The Extraterrestrial to have greater second and third weekends than its first.
Johnston will proceed to be repped by Tash Moseley Administration, Atlas Expertise Company for voiceover, imPRint and Johnson Shapiro.
