Mary-Louise Parker, Carrie-Anne Moss, Isabelle Fuhrman & Liana Liberato Set For Justine Bateman’s Film ‘Face’ Based On Her Bestseller

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EXCLUSIVE: Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix franchise), Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice) and Liana Liberato (To the Bone) have signed on to star in Justine Bateman’s upcoming feature Face, based on her 2021 bestseller, Face: One Square Foot of Skin.The film penned by Bateman consists of 14 vignettes, both comedic and dramatic, which look at women’s faces getting older, and why that makes people angry.

While much of society appears to assume that women’s faces are somehow broken and need to be fixed, Face reveals some of the many ways in which women, and those around them, allow this idea to take root at all.Parker will play Tanya, an actress balancing her need to use her face for her job and the pressure to not move it at all, with Moss as Mrs.

Foster, a kindergarten teacher whose young students remind her of the magical functionality of the face. Fuhrman is set for the role of Chris, a 30-year-old who is stunned by the warnings of the impending expiration of her attractiveness, with Liberato to portray Jenny, a waitress determined to succeed on her looks, while refusing the notion that those looks will ever change at all.Face will enter production in Los Angeles in late fall, with Bateman producing under her Section 5 banner, along with Veronica Radaelli (Violet, 9 Bullets).

Cassian Elwes (Mudbound, Dallas Buyers Club) is serving as the project’s executive producer, with Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe handling its casting.Parker is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner best known for turns on series including Colin in Black and White, Mr.