Alicia Witt, who stars in Samuel Goldwyn’s Jane Austen feature adaptation Modern Persuasion, has joined the feature film Alice for Steel Springs Pictures and first-time helmer Krystin Ver Linden.
Witt will appear opposite Keke Palmer, Jonny Lee Miller, Common and Gaius Charles in writer-director Ver Linden’s period slave thriller.
She will play the role of Rachel, the former owner of Alice (Palmer) who values the rigid societal hierarchies of the Antebellum South.
The character-driven thriller tells the story of a woman of servitude who escapes the 55-acre confines of her captor to discover the shocking reality that exists beyond the tree line -- that it’s 1973.
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