Lily Rabe, the Tony-nominated actress who has carved a name for herself withAmerican Horror Story, has been cast as the female lead in The Tender Bar, the drama that George Clooney is directing for Amazon Studios.
Ben Affleck and Tye Sheridan are starring in the adaptation of the memoir by J.R. Moehringer that recounted the writer’s adolescent years growing up on Long Island in search of a father figure among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
Sheridan is playing the author while Affleck is the uncle. Rabe steps into the role of Moehringer’s mother, who is the main female character in the memoir.
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