New Film Role for Gillian
Posted at 11:34 AM (PDT) on Thursday, April 22, 2004

*CONFIRMED*

From Belfast Telegraph:

The talent is out there...
X-Files star due in Belfast for role in new film

By Eddie McIlwaine

X-FILES star Gillian Anderson is heading for Belfast in the summer - to play the mother of a teenage boy caught up in the undercurrent of violence in the city in a big screen movie.

And on Saturday the search will be launched here to find a talented young actor to take the role of her son in the film Valhalla.

Writer Pierce Elliott has a picture in his mind of the kind of 10-14-year-old he sees in the vital part and will be at the Maysfield Leisure Centre (10am-1pm) to help find him from the scores of fledging actors who are expected to turn up.

"It's a heaven-sent opportunity for a youngster to launch a career in acting," he said today.

"Boys with acting experience and lads with no stage background at all, only ambition, will be welcome, we will be turning no-one away," added Pierce, one of Ulster's burgeoning wordsmiths whose Pulling Moves is soon to be seen on BBC television.

Valhalla, the plot of which is being kept under wraps, will also star Full Monty actor Robert Carlyle.

It is being shot on location here by Treasure Entertainments, with support from the BBC.