Broadway Vets Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh & More Join Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings
Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kyra Sedgwick will join Daniel Radcliffe in the film thriller Kill Your Darlings, according to Deadline.com. As previously announced, Radcliffe will play iconic beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the film, described as a gay-themed drama about the friendship of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Lucien Carr, which was upended when Carr killed a jealous older admirer, David Kammerer, in 1944. John Krokidas directs a script he wrote with Austin Bunn.
Radcliffe will also be joined by Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker, Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac, Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr and Ben Foster as William Burroughs. Hall will play Burrough’s longtime friend who fell victim to a murder that helped spark the Beat Revolution in 1944. No words yet on the characters Leigh or Sedgwick will play. The new film is not related to Howl, the 2010 film drama starring James Franco as Ginsberg and featuring Aaron Tveit as Peter Orlovsky.
Hall has received four Emmy nominations for Dexter as well as an additional nod for Six Feet Under. He has appeared on Broadway in Chicago, Cabaret and Skylight. His off-Broadway work includes Mr. Marmalade, Corpus Christi, Cymbeline, Macbeth, Timon of Athens and Henry V.
Leigh has appeared on Broadway in Cabaret, Proof and The House of Blue Leaves. Among her many film credits are Dolores Claiborne, Road to Perdition, The Anniversary Party, Bastard out of Carolina, Kansas City, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Single White Female and The Big Picture.
Sedgwick has been on Broadway in Ah, Wilderness and Twelfth Night. She is a Golden Globe and Emmy winner for her starring role in TV drama The Closer. Her other screen roles include Murder in the First, Singles, Something to Talk About and Man on a Ledge.
