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The film adaptation of the “Saturday Night Live” skit MacGruber will be shooting soon in New Mexico and is looking for at least one actress with the guts to take it all off.
Kathryn Brink, an Albuquerque casting agent, is looking for an actress for the comedy scene to appear as a naked art model alongside Val Kilmer, who plays a painter named Cunth. The kicker, though, is that the actress needs to be in her 70s.
“MacGruber,” for those who have better things to do on a Saturday night than watch TV, is an SNL parody of the 1980s action show “MacGyver,” but amped up. The movie, like “Wayne’s World” and “Coneheads,” will be produced by SNL’s Lorne Michaels, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film will, of course, star Will Forte and Kristen Wiig, who will reprise their roles from the TV skit, the Reporter said.
The film will shoot in New Mexico only for a few days in mid-August.
If you want to try out for the nude model position, contact Brink at kbrinkcasting@aol.com with a head shot and résumé.
When the producers of “Gospel Hill” called Giancarlo Esposito and offered him the lead role in the major film, he turned them down.
“It wasn’t me,” Esposito said.
He wasn’t interested, he said, in playing an older, more seasoned character.
“I also told them to cut about 10 characters,” he said.
Instead of simply listening to Esposito’s numerous suggestions, they hired him to rewrite and direct the film.
“I was off and running. I rewrote it over 18 months and went off and produced it and did the role I wanted to do,” he said. “This was the first I’ve done like that. I have the (directing) bug, but more than the bug, I have the commitment and a soul connection to it.”
His film “Gospel Hill” will see its Albuquerque premiere at the Albuquerque Film Festival at 6 p.m. Aug. 9 at the KiMo Theatre to close the festival.
Esposito , who was in “The Usual Suspects,” “Waiting to Exhale,” and “Mo’ Better Blues,” as well as several TV shows, will also host an acting workshop at the festival at 2 p.m. Aug. 8 at The Cell, 700 First NW. Visit AlbuquerqueFilmFestival.com or pick up Friday’s Venue in the Journal for more information on the festival.
For “Gospel Hill,” Esposito ended up finding an all-star cast to make the movie, including Danny Glover to play the lead, Angela Basset, Julia Stiles and Adam Baldwin. “And I got to play the part I wanted,” he said. At the screening of “Gospel Hill,” Esposito will talk about the film and what it was like to be a first-time director. “I didn’t want to direct a film that championed violence or sex, and I wanted to do something with good characters,” he said. But Esposito is going to stick around Albuquerque after the festival to reprise his character Gus Frings on “Breaking Bad.”
“I wanted to be involved in something that will take me a little further,” he said. He’s expecting to be in seven to nine episodes of the third season, which will begin shooting soon at Albuquerque Studios.
Frings, his character, is the owner of Los Pollos Hermanos chain of chicken restaurants who, on the side, sells more than fried chicken.
“I’m a guy who you’d look up at and sit next to you in church, but I move a lot of product,” he said. “I handle the business of the business.”
He’ll work alongside Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston, who were both nominated for Emmy awards this year for their work on “Breaking Bad.”
“Bryan, I think, he’s a great actor, and I think the show is innovative,” Esposito said.
