Just in case you’ve been asking yourself whatever happen to Ashley Judd’s acting career, we have the answer for you. It got bugged! Her last good role was opposite Kevin Kline in “De-Lovely” released in 2004. Ms. Judd will now star in a new horror/paranoia flick called “Bug”.
The film is about a paranoid war veteran who totally looses it and begins to see all kinds of insects everywhere, imagining that a lot of people are actually bugs posing as humans.
He soon finds himself holed up in a spooky, delapidated old Oklahoma motel sharing space and love with a lonely waitress, played by Judd.
The film co-stars Michael Shannon and might have regained some legitimacy by the fact that Harry Connick Jr has also signed on. Either Harry was looking for some downtime from his Big Band tour, or this might actually be a somewhat fair film to watch. Also, the fact the the film is directed by Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (“The French Connection,” “The Exorcist”), certainly doesn’t hurt.
The tagline for the film is “First they send in their drone… then they find their queen,” so you can already guess who Judd may turn out to be.
“Bug” was originally designed for a 2006 release, but was delayed in post-production. It will now get screen time beginning this Friday, May 25.
Judd’s next film, “Crossing Over,” starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Summer Bishil and Sean Penn, a story about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles, looks a bit more promising than “Bug”.
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