from EUR Report:
WILL WHITNEY RETURN TO ACTING?
Movie producer Lee Daniels wants Houston in his upcoming
film about pedophilia.
*Movie producer Lee Daniels likes dark stories.
He produced “Monster’s Ball,” the film that was an Oscar
vehicle for Halle Berry. “Monster’s Ball” was about death
row, prison culture, interracial romance and it was set
in a South that looked haunted. Remember the suicide
scene? Or what about the accidental death of Leticia’s
son? The movie was one bleak moment after another
and without the benefit of a soundtrack.
Daniels is preparing to shoot a new film that may
be as dark and controversial as “Ball.” It’s called “The
Woodsman” and it’s about pedophilia. Daniels wants
to cast Whitney Houston in the lead, female role.
“We’re in heavy discussions with Whitney Houston.
I don’t know for sure that we’re going to hire her,” Daniels
says, “[but] she is absolutely aware [of the offer].”
In this movie, the lead male character (who is not
yet cast) works at a lumberyard. He thinks about having
sex with children.
Obviously a film of this nature is bound to raise a few
eyebrows, and Daniels says he is somewhat scared about
making the film.
“I go back and forth about whether it should be made,”
he says. “When the writers pitched the story to me I hung
the phone up. I think there are certain [stories] that don’t
need to be told.”
Daniels decided to make the movie once he read
the script.
“Three-quarters of the way into the [story] we learn
the guy that we like, the guy we’re rooting for, is a pedophile.
It’s the first time we understand about pedophilia. We never
see him touching a child at all. It’s all in his head.”
Because Daniels believes the role is Oscar material
and because he wants more black actors to win Oscars,
he considered casting a black male for the part.
“Whoever plays this role will get an Oscar,” he says.
But when Daniels researched pedophilia he says he
learned that blacks make up less than 10% of pedophiles.
“Statistically, blacks don’t commit pedophilia so
it wouldn’t be true,” he says.
So the male lead will probably not be black. But
back to Whitney Houston.
“She’d play the female lead. No one else agrees with
me [about casting Houston] but no one else thinks I should
do the film,” Daniels says.
It’s been eleven years since Houston’s acting debut
in “The Bodyguard” with Kevin Costner nevertheless
Daniels thinks the singer has ‘chops.’
“She has moments of brilliance like Diana Ross,”
he says. “She was in heavy discussions for ‘Monster’s
Ball.’ I want to give it to her because she’s the underdog
right now. I feel for her. I want to give her a shot. She’s got
a problem. My brother, my cousin are riddled with that
disease, [with] addiction.”
Although filming begins in two-three weeks Daniels
is not worried that he has yet to hire the lead actors.
“We didn’t have half of the cast for ‘Monster’s Ball’
until the very last minute,” he says.
Ashley Judd (“who is not chopped liver,” Daniels
remarks) is also being considered for the female lead
so there is a Plan B, so to speak.
Daniels is patient. He’ll wait for the right actors like
he waited for the right film to produce. He says that he
sifted through many bad scripts including “Good Times:
The Movie,” before he settled on “The Woodsman.”
“As a black man, I want these people [in Hollywood]
to see that we’re going to go right back to the Oscars
and with something that’s off-kilter,” he says.
-- by Renee Simms
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