Best known for playing droll teenage con-artist Maeby Fünke in cult TV comedy series Arrested Development, multi-talented US actor Alia Shawkat is set to delight Australian fans as a guest of this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. In town for the screening of Ethan Hawke-directed biopic Blaze (which tells the story of country and western…
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Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat to Star in Animals
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Award-winning director Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays, Life in Movement) is helming a feature adaptation of author-turned-screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth’s best-selling novel Animals, an unconventional female driven comedy starring Holliday Grainger (Tulip Fever, My Cousin Rachel) and Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development, Search Party). The official Irish/Australian co-production from Vico Films and Closer Productions is currently shooting…