20th Century Fox dropped the latest Red Sparrow trailer during Super Bowl Lii. Jennifer Lawrence teams up with her Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence in a movie about a ballerina who is recruited by Russian intelligence for “Sparrow School”. There she is taught how to use her body as a weapon with her first mission involving the target of a CIA agent. The new 30-second spot is a quick look at Lawrence’s character journey of becoming a “Sparrow” that seduces and…...
- 2/4/2018
- Deadline
20th Century Fox dropped the latest Red Sparrow trailer during Super Bowl Lii. Jennifer Lawrence teams up with her Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence in a movie about a ballerina who is recruited by Russian intelligence for “Sparrow School”. There she is taught how to use her body as a weapon with her first mission involving the target of a CIA agent. The new 30-second spot is a quick look at Lawrence’s character journey of becoming a “Sparrow” that seduces and…...
- 2/4/2018
- Deadline TV
The son of Franco Zeffirelli has stepped forward to defend his father after actor Johnathon Schaech wrote in People on Thursday that the celebrated Italian director “molested” him during production of the 1993 movie “Sparrow.” “All these allegations are not credible,” Pippo Zeffirelli said in a statement on behalf of his father, who is 94. “My father is in poor health and not able to understand this attack and to respond to the allegations. … This will be an incredible damage to his image and reputation on the basis of allegations which are not credible and cannot be proved. Schaech, whose credits...
- 1/12/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Johnathon Schaech is sharing allegations against Italian director Franco Zeffirelli. In an essay published on People, 48-year-old Schaech writes that the director, 94, harassed and sexually abused him during production of the '90s film Sparrow, claims that Zeffirelli's son Pippo denied to the publication, calling the allegations "not credible." Schaech was cast in the movie in 1992 and won the role after attending an open call and making it thought a number of auditions. After being cast in the role, the actor writes in the essay that he was flown to England to "work on the English dialect at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts." During that time, Schaech alleges, "Franco would fly in...
- 1/11/2018
- E! Online
Johnathon Schaech was 22 when acclaimed director Franco Zeffirelli cast him as the lead in his movie Sparrow. It was 1992, and the newcomer was thrilled to work with the Italian filmmaker, famed for films such as The Champ, La Traviata and Romeo and Juliet, for which he earned a 1969 Oscar nod for best director. But Schaech says Zeffirelli harassed and sexually abused him during the shoot, a trauma he’s kept secret for 25 years. Hopeful his story can help make positive change, the Ray Donovan actor, now 48, who rose to fame in That Thing You Do!, shared this first-person account with People’s Elizabeth Leonard.
- 1/11/2018
- by Johnathon Schaech
- PEOPLE.com
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