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Such a poignant question...

Poignant... or pungent?

That picture with the old guy has to be the creepiest picture ever posted on here!

Some people have been waiting for these.

Since making her screen debut in 2006, willowy actress Dawn Olivieri has scored
roles on such hit shows as How I Met Your Mother, Entourage and True Blood. But
her breakthrough came this year on the new Showtime series House of Lies.
Playing the ruthless and lusty ex of Don Cheadle's cutthroat but charismatic
consultant, Olivieri has been grabbing the notice of casting directors and
filmmakers.

While she's had to turn down a role in the new Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner
Breacher to shoot season two of House of Lies, THR reports Olivieri has signed
on to co-star in Catherine Hardwicke's follow-up to the flopped fantasy Red
Riding Hood, an erotic thriller called Plush. Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) will
headline the film, and previous reports had her playing a patient of a
psychically gifted psychologist, whose shocked to discover this teen girl is as
adept at delving into the minds of others —actually being able to see their
memories—as he is.

However, this latest update calls Browning's character "a rising rock star" and
"married mother of two" whose grieving over her brother's unexpected death from
a drug overdose is postponed by an illicit affair with an alluring guitarist
played by Xavier Samuel (The Loved Ones), who keeps a dark past secret. Olivieri
will play the band's manager, a role described as the second female lead; Cam
Gigandet (Trespass), who was previously said to be playing the mind-probing
therapist, is now reported to be playing Browning's husband. No mention is made
of the strange psychic subplot.

Reading these two very different plot descriptions for Plush, I'm left trying to
make sense of how Hardwicke's script—co-written by How to Make It In America
scribe Arty Nelson—will merge these premises. Here's my guess: the film begins
with Browning as Gigandet's patient, but their shared psychic abilities lead to
love, marriage and babies. But as she struggles to cope with her brother's
death, she becomes depressed and aims to run from her troubles/life with an
affair. Presumably her husband's none-the-wiser because she's blocking him out
with her powers. Using these same powers she begins to see her guitar-playing
lover is not what he seems, and then maybe she and her husband reunite and fend
off this dangerous home-wrecking dude?

Sure it sounds bonkers, but Hardwicke's never been known for her subtlety.
Perhaps a clearer picture will come into focus when the film goes into
production.

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