Nexus 6 Films is delighted to announce that it has signed Brooke Harman to play the lead female role in its upcoming feature, Crush.
Written by co-director John V. Soto, Crush tells the story of Julian Meadows – an American exchange student and disgraced Tae Kwon Do champion whose life is transformed into a living hell after being seduced by the mysterious yet beautiful, Anna.
Julian is being played by Chris Egan of Home and Away fame, whose recent US film and television credits include Virgin Territory, Resident Evil: Extinction, Eragon, Empire, Alpha Male, Vanished, and Pretty Handsome; while Harman will play his much loved and highly supportive girlfriend, Clare.
Born in Orange County California, Harman moved to Australia as a young girl and scored her first television role on the children’s series The Wayne Manifesto. Since then she has guest starred on a number of television programs including Home and Away, All Saints, White Collar Blue, McLeod’s Daughters, Beastmaster, Flipper, The Sleepover Club, Roar, Misery Guts, Returning Lily/Tempted, Finding Hope, Step Sister from the Planet Weird, and Max Knight Ultra Spy. Harman also starred in the children’s television program Pirate Islands, and was a permanent cast member of The Secret Life of Us.
Her feature film credits include playing Maggie in the award winning Ned Kelly (starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts) and the feature role of Silvy Lewis in the Paramount motion picture Till Human Voices Wake Us (with Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter).
According to Nexus 6 Films producer Deidre Kitcher, Harman’s addition to its already exceptional cast has come on the back of a dream run in the lead up to its January production.
‘Considering this is our first feature film, we are over the moon to have secured such a phenomenally talented cast and crew. We have amazingly experienced actors in Chris and Brooke to headline the production, plus one of the country’s best film editors in Jason Ballantine.’
‘That they all have such great confidence in John’s script, is simply wonderful’, said Kitcher.
Filming of the $2 million dollar thriller will take place in and around Perth from 2 January to 8 February 2008.
Crush is planned to open in cinemas across the United States in Autumn 2009, with an Australian release expected later that year.
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