After cropping up in films such as Hitch and Nothing But The Truth, Julie Ann Emery has been enjoying more substantial roles on TV, including Masters Of Sex and Better Call Saul. Emery will be back on the big screen next year, as she’s joining Chris Evans in custody battle drama Gifted.
Marc Webb is using the film as his first directorial assignment since the two Amazing Spider-Man movies. Written by Tom Flynn, Gifted is a drama about Frank Adler (Evans), a deliberate underachiever, who is raising his niece Mary (McKenna Grace), in rural Florida. When he enrolls her in school for the first time, she is labelled as gifted. All Frank wants is for Mary to have a normal life, but standing in his way is her grandmother, his mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), and the dilemma that he doesn’t have custody of Mary. So being proactive for once, he sues to win that custody.
Emery’s role isn’t specified, but she joins a cast that already includes Octavia Spencer, reuniting with her Snowpiercer co-star to play his landlady and friend, and Obvious Child's Jenny Slate, as Mary’s teacher, who also sees something in Frank.
Webb is rolling the cameras now ready for a 2016 release.