The official U.S. tumblog for the upcoming Richard Linklater film "Me and Orson Welles."
Set in 1930's New York City, a young aspiring actor (Zac Efron) is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles' historic staging of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".
Throughout the exciting and maddening rehearsal process, Efron finds romance with a wordly older woman (Claire Danes), becomes immersed in a creative experience few are afforded, and learns the downside of crossing the imperious, brilliant Orson Welles (newcomer Christian McKay).
“It was absolutely magical. I heard Norman’s stories about the Mercury Theater as it was. We were the New Mercury; we bonded like a theater company. We looked out for each other, we were pals, we were a band of brothers. We really were like that and with the crew and everybody, and of course it helped enormously that we were on the Isle of Man, marooned in a sense in the theater which was so close to the comedy of theater, the Gaiety, which was right next door to our hotel.” - ComingSoon.net
