Admittedly, I wasn’t too excited about the line-up for this year’s Austin Film Festival until THIS happened.
On Sunday, an all star cast – including Will Ferrell, Thomas Haden Church, Linda Cardellini, Giancarlo Esposito, Paula E. Brooks, Johnny Dowers, Billy Burke, Wiley Wiggins, Catherine Willis and Rob Brown – read Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s long-unproduced script for 2 Face in front of a live audience.
Gilligan, who was honored with AFF’s Outstanding Television Writing Award, was also on hand and cautioned the audience, “[2 Face] was written to be a comedy, but it’s a comedy about racism.” He added, “There are some uncomfortable things in it.”
2 Face revolves around a schizophrenic man (Ferrell) who, by day, is a racist jerked but, by night, turns into an amiable guy who thinks he is Rodeo Bob and believes he lives years into the future.
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Photos: Austin360
