Juno Temple, who has a small role in Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” which opened in limited release last weekend, has quickly added a couple more films to her busy schedule.
The young actress has joined “Dirty Girl,” in which she plays the lead role of “a notorious high schooler who runs away with her closeted gay class partner to drive from Oklahoma to California to find the father she’s never met.” It sounds kind of ridiculous but the cast that includes Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Dwight Yoakam and Mary Steenburgen is pretty solid. How much do you want to bet Yoakam plays an asshole bigot? Abe Sylvia will be making his feature length directorial debut and wrote the script as well.
Also on Temple’s plate is “Goodnight Moon” (no, its not an adaptation of the classic children’s story) with AnnaSophia Robb. In this film, Temple is on the run again in a story that “centers on two young girls who find themselves in trouble after they run away to Los Angeles.” Elgin James will also be making his directorial debut from his own script.
But presumably before those films, as we previously reported, Temple has joined the lesbian werewolf film, “Jack & Diane” where she’ll star alongside Olivia Thirlby. That film is set to get in front of cameras in late May.
These are all definitely some edgy roles for the young actress, but perhaps that’s to be expected when you’re the daughter of punk parents Julien and Amanda Temple.