Chloë Sevigny currently has the following movies and TV productions coming up, in production or in development:
• Hit and Miss (2012): As Mia
• Innocence (TBA): As Pamela (rumored)
• Lizzie Borden (2012): As Lizzie Borden
• Lovelace (2012): As Rebecca
• Panarea (2013): As Linnea
• The Wait (TBA): As Emma
Please Note: Unless marked as “rumored”, Chloë Sevigny’s involvement in all of the above listed films and TV productions has been confirmed by authoritative sources. However, projects in production or pre-production may be subject to changes in casting, script, filming schedule and -locations. Information may be subject to change faster than we’re able to update this page.
Genre: Drama, Miniseries
Role: Mia
Network: Sky Atlantic
Co-Stars: Peter Wight, Vincent Regan, Karla Crome, Reece Noi, Jonas Armstrong, Erin Shanagher, Jordan Hill, Steve Money, Ben Crompton, Ethan Griffin, Jorden Bennie, Roma Christensen
Status: In post-production.
Release Date: UK, May 2012 (Sky Atlantic)
Photos in our Hit and Miss gallery
Plot Outline:
Hit and Miss is a six-part miniseries about Mia, a contract killer with a big secret: she’s a pre-op transsexual. Mia’s life is sent into a tailspin when she receives a letter from her ex, Wendy, who reveals that she’s dying from cancer and that Mia had fathered a son, 11-year-old Ryan.
Ambitious and high concept, Hit and Miss is about family, sexual identity and killing, as it follows Mia’s attempts to mix her killer instincts with her new maternal ones as she starts life with her new family – a lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family dramatically changes all of their lives forever. (Courtesy of Sky Atlantic)
Chloë Sevigny portrays Mia. Sky Atlantic confirmed her role in the series in June 2011. Filming for the series began later that month in Manchester, UK and continued until the end of the year.
Quotes from Chloë regarding the series; from Ology.com:
I’m going to England to do a miniseries. I don’t think it’s been announced yet, so I’m not supposed to talk about it. I will be playing a pre-op male to female tranny assassin. It’s f*ckin’ awesome, but there’s an accent.
From BlackBookMag.com:
I feel this will be my most feminine, most glamorous role to date. I hope that I have enough gay stripes that I won’t get totally attacked. It was the creators’ idea not to hire a boy to play the part, and of course as an actor you’re going to jump on that. I’m going to try to play it as beautiful and as feminine and as glamorous as I can — not like Transamerica.
From Interview magazine February 2012:
We had a lot of mettings about movement and I tried to slim down. I tried to lose a lot of weight because I thought it would make me look more masculine if I were gaunt. I had to do a lot of nudity as well, so I figured if I were less curvy, that would help. I was working out a lot because my character does a lot of physical stuff as an assassin. When I got to Manchester, where we were filming, I had rehearsals with the director and the writer. I wanted to play the role with this exaggerated feminine behavior that a lot of transgender male-to-females have. It’s like a learned femininity. It’s very girly. But they didn’t want that. I thought, Well, how are you going to know? How can we remind the audience who I am? So on the show there are a lot of quick glimpses of me naked, wearing a prosthetic penis, which was horrifying. But I tried to get some of my own ideas in there. We did all of these different walks. I literally spent hours just sitting and moving my hands and walking to prepare.
It was very hard being in Manchester. […] It was one of the grimmest places I’d ever been in my entire life, and I was there for so long. I hardly had any visitors. I was so alone.
Well, my character is mostly still a man beause she’s pre-op. But I concentrated on what makes someone an angry person or an evil person. She’s a killer. She kills for money, so she’s crossed over into that realm of a bad person. She’s a sociopath. She kills and harms and brings violence into the home without remorse — without batting an eye.
She is [a hired assassin]. But she has a family. She’s looking after a bunch of children, so she has the kids in the car, pops out, strangles a guy, and then comes back to the car and says, ‘You guys wanna go get some fish-and-chips?’ [laughs] It’s very businesslike, very cold. I talked with the directors about her growing up in violence. She’s self-abusive. She hits herself… She’s one of those. I think she finds comfort in it because she was beaten as a child.
[…] the woman who my character had a child with had other children. So [Mia] inherits this whole family. My character has all of these maternal and paternal feelings for her child. It really changes things. She’s been very cut off from the world, isolating herself in this apartment, so she begins to open up.
Links:
• BlackBookMag.com: “Chloë Sevigny on Going from Drug Smuggler to Pre-Op Trans Assassin”
• Deadline.com: “Chloe Sevigny To Star In British Series From Paul Abbott Which Eyes U.S. Distribution”
• Ology.com: “Chloë Sevigny Sick of Playing the Suffering Wife, Incredibly Honest”
• RedProductionCompany.com: “Chloë Sevigny in Hit and Miss”
• Scans from Interview February 2012
• Sky.com: “Hit and Miss: More Casting News”
Genre: Drama
Role: Pamela (rumored)
Director: Hilary Brougher
Co-Stars: Abigail Breslin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore
Status: Unknown.
Release Date: TBA (2012?)
Photos in our Innocence gallery
Plot Outline:
Adolescence is a tough time for most people, and it is especially hard for 14-year-old Beckett, whose mother was killed in a drunk-driving accident in the suburbs. After the accident, her father, Miles, decides to move to an apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, enrolling Beckett in an exclusive private school.
Strange things are happening at this school: several girls have formed suicide pacts, and three girls kill themselves shortly after Beckett begins school. It is through these events that Beckett meets Pamela, the school nurse, who begins dating Miles and eventually becomes Beckett’s new stepmother… (Courtesy of Filmofilia)
According to the Internet Movie Database, Chloë Sevigny will portray Pamela. Her involvement in the film has not been confirmed, and no start date for the production has been announced.
Links:
• Internet Movie Database: Innocence
Genre: Drama, Miniseries
Role: Lizzie Borden
Network: HBO
Co-Stars: TBA
Status: In development as of early 2011.
Release Date: US, 2012 (HBO)
Photos in our Lizzie Borden gallery
Plot Outline:
Lizzie Borden is a four-hour miniseries about the infamous story of Lizzie Borden who, in 1893, was acquitted of murdering her overbearing father and step-mother with a hatchet, but was publically condemned. (Credit: Deadline)
Chloë Sevigny will star in the title role as Lizzie Borden. HBO confirmed in March 2011 that they are developing the miniseries with Chloë Sevigny and Playtone. According to Deadline.com, Chloë will both star and co-executive produce, and has been a “driving force” behind the project from the beginning. HBO and Playtone previously worked with Chloë on Big Love. Additional details remain currently TBA, however the Internet Movie Database has set the series’ premiere date as 2012.
Links:
• Internet Movie Database: Lizzie Borden
• Deadline.com: “HBO Developing Lizzie Borden Miniseries With Chloe Sevigny And Playtone”
• LATimes.com: “Chloe Sevigny talks about developing Lizzie Borden miniseries”
Genre: Biopic, Drama
Role: Rebecca
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Co-Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Debi Mazar, Wes Bentley, Romeo Brown, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, Sarah Jessica Parker
Status: Filming ongoing in Los Angeles, California.
Release Date: US, 2012
Photos in our Lovelace gallery
Plot Outline:
Lovelace tells the story Linda Lovelace, the star of the infamous porn film Deep Throat who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband before taking control of her life.
Chloë Sevigny will portray Rebecca, a feminist journalist on freelance assignment for a men’s magazine to find out who the real Linda Lovelace is. The film will reunite Chloë both with her Big Love co-stars Amanda Seyfried (in the title role) and Robert Patrick and Boys Don’t Cry‘s Peter Sarsgaard. Her involvement in the film was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter in January 2012, just days after the news broke that Demi Moore had pulled out of the film due to health concerns. (Moore has since been replaced in the role of Gloria Steinem by Sarah Jessica Parker.)
Lovelace is currently filming in Los Angeles.
Links:
• Internet Movie Database: Lovelace
• The Hollywood Reporter: “Chloe Sevigny Joins Amanda Seyfried in ‘Lovelace’”
Genre: Drama
Role: Linnea
Director: Adam Bhala Lough
Co-Stars: Mark Webber
Status: In pre-production.
Release Date: US, 2013
Photos in our Panarea gallery
Plot Outline:
Panarea follows a young married couple with intimacy issues who find themselves vacationing on an exotic Italian island where their commitment will be tested. (Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter)
In Panarea, Webber will play Paul, an American struggling with what it means to be a man. Chloë Sevigny will play his wife, Linnea. Chloë’s involvement in the film was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter in January 2012.
Panarea is currently in pre-production.
Links:
• Internet Movie Database: Panarea
• The Hollywood Reporter: “Sundance 2012: Mark Webber and Chloe Sevigny to Star in Indie Drama ‘Panarea’”
Genre: Drama
Role: Emma
Director: M. Blash
Co-Stars: Luke Grimes, Jena Malone, Devon Gearhart, Michael O’Keefe, Josh Hamilton
Status: In post-production as of July 2010.
Release Date: TBA
Photos in our The Wait gallery
Plot Outline:
Two sisters decide to keep their deceased mother in the house after receiving a call that she will come back to life. Grimes will portray a philosophical and enigmatic man who becomes smitten with Malone’s character. (Credit: Variety)
Chloë Sevigny appears in the film as Emma.
Chloë’s involvement in The Wait was first reported by Variety in June 2010. The film reunites Chloë with friend and writer-director M. Blash as well as actress Jena Malone, both of whom she worked with on the 2006 drama Lying. Principal photography began late June 2010 in Portland, Oregon. The film has been “in post-production” since July 2010. No release date has been announced.
Links:
• Internet Movie Database: The Wait
• Variety: “Grimes set for Blash’s ‘Wait’”
