Casting Bites: Jesse Plemons, Doris Roberts, and Brian Baumgartner

Filed under: Comedy , Drama , Independent , Casting Have a happy Canada Day with these casting bites! When I heard that Gore Vidal was going to pop up in Shrink, I went into literary fangirl heaven, which quickly became a fan rant . The movie stars Kevin Spacey as a shrink who isn’t able to deal with a personal tragedy and becomes a burn-out pothead. And now The Hollywood Reporter posts that some young blood is being injected into the indie. Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights) gets to co-star as a pot dealer named Jesus. I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s the shrink’s drug connection. Meanwhile, Doris Roberts , who became a household fixture as the overbearing mom and grandma on Everybody Loves Raymond, has picked up a new film gig. Variety reports that she’s starring with Ernest Borgnine in a new film called Another Harvest Moon . She’ll play “a relentlessly peppy septuagenarian in a nursing home.”...