Diora Baird has been cast in the sequal to the 2007 horror film 30 Days of Night, which will be called 30 Days of Night: Dark Days. Read the article below for more information.
Bloody Disgusting just got the exclusive drop on the first official casting for the Ben Ketai directed 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures’ direct-to-video sequel to the Steve Niles adaptation from 2007. Filming officially kicked off TODAY and beyond the break Bloody Disgusting has your official cast. Enjoy!
Here’s the casting breakdown for you guys, exclusive to Bloody Disgusting:
Rhys Coiro, who plays the infamous Billy in “Entourage” and takes on a major role in Screen Gems’ Straw Dogs remake, takes on one of the lead roles.
Mia Kirshner of The Black Dahlia and Party Monster) plays the lead vampire villain “Lilith”.
Also starring are Harold Perrineau (“Lost”, 28 Weeks Later), the beautiful Kiele Sanchez (A Perfect Getaway, Insanitarium, “Lost”) and genre vet Diora Baird (Night of the Demons, Texas Chiansaw Massacre: Te Beginning, Stan Helsing). Rhys Coiro and Monique Ganderton round out the cast.
Coiro starred in The Unborn and the forthcoming remake of Straw Dogs. Ganderton is the stunt double in tons of horror movies ranging from Joy Ride: Dead Ahead to Underworld: Evolution, White Noise 2: The Light and the forthcoming The Cabin in the Woods.
Plot crunch: After nearly a year of struggling to expose the truth, a desperate and lonely Stella decides to join a group of rogue vampire hunters to seek revenge on Lilith, the powerful vampire responsible for the attack on her Alaskan town…
Source: BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
On the new CBS comedy Accidentally on Purpose, the character of Davis (Nicolas Wright) has not exactly been much of a ladies’ man – though that doesn’t stop him from attempting to hit on the female characters on the show, to no avail.
However, on this Monday’s new episode, “The Love Guru”, Davis’ luck takes a dramatic turn, when he meets the very sexy Andrea, played by guest star Diora Baird (Wedding Crashers, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning).
During a recent visit to the set of Accidentally on Purpose, Baird explained her character, Andrea, to me thusly: “She likes to have sex… a lot. And for some reason, she’s really attracted to Davis. It doesn’t make any sense, because she’s really out of his league, but all she wants to do is use him as her sex object.”
Executive Producer Claudia Lonow explained to me that this scenario arises after lead character Billie (Jenna Elfman) , “kind of realizes that at this point she’s on the dating sidelines,” thanks to her pregnancy. As a result, Lonow explained, “She’s dating vicariously, acting as the puppet master for Davis.” With Billie as his mentor, or Love Guru, Davis ends up miraculously getting the attention of Andrea.
Wright notes that a dilemma arises when Davis finds himself truly attracted to Andrea, and not just for physical reasons. Said Wright, “She’s obviously very keen on a sexual relationship with Davis, but clearly she’s an amazing girl and Davis sees that instantaneously. And I think for the first time in awhile, he’s like, ‘Man, if I’m going to mess around, I’d like to have an actual relationship with you, because you seem like a really cool person.’ But she won’t have any of that.”
Wright, who shares his character’s passion for gaming — Grand Theft Auto IV, Call of Duty, Brother in Arms and Splinter Cell are among his favorites — had a lot of praise for Baird, remarking, “She’s so funny, she’s so cool, super down to Earth. She’s great to work with. It’s hard to come in on a show where you’re a guest star, because there’s a dynamic that’s built up and you have to come in and kind of do your thing. And she just fit in so well.” On top of that Wright added, “To be manhandled by a beautiful woman is a beautiful thing. So yeah, it was just an absolute joy.”
Baird in the meantime displayed the same quick wit her followers on on her Twitter feed are familiar with. She joked that her method for preparing to play a character like Andrea was to “basically have sex with everyone,” and when I asked her how it was to work with Wright, she noted he was now standing behind me, and loudly exclaimed, “The guy that plays Davis is a total asshole.” But she made it up to him soon after – As I was talking to Wright, Baird walked by and shouted, “Nick has a big wiener!”
I asked Baird what it was like playing a scene where she sexually intimidates Wright, and she deadpanned, “It’s a difficult task. It’s very, very difficult. He doesn’t make it easy for me,” before adding, “No, he’s great. I think he secretly enjoys it, perhaps. I think it’s actually sometimes harder for the guy I’m usually seducing or raping or something – because that’s what I basically do to him, I rip his pants off, I push him down.”
Baird noted she’d played a very sexual character on several CBS comedies recently, including Two and a Half Men and Gary Unmarried. “I just have fun with it,” she said, explaining that if she was going to be cast as that type of character, it was nice to do it in a comedy where, “Instead of having to take your clothes off to seduce someone, you’re taking them off to get a laugh – which is a very big difference for me. I would do pretty much anything for a joke, for the sake of a laugh. I don’t care. Boobs are boobs. Whatever, we all got ‘em! Some men have ‘em!”
Diora Baird guest stars in Accidentally on Purpose on Monday, October 19th at 8:30pm ET/PT.
Source: IGN.COM
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