Giovanni Ribisi, known for his roles in several Seth MacFarlane productions including Ted, Fathers, and the recent A Million Ways to Die in the West, has recently been cast in Paramount’s Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma as Presidential adviser Lee C. White.
As noted by We Got This Covered, White was an “adviser to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson – who was highly influential in helping to devise presidential strategies regarding the civil rights movement.” The site also notes that White was instrumental in helping to push the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through Congress, an act that White himself regarded as his greatest accomplishment.
Ribisi’s White will advise Tom Wilkinson’s Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as a cast that includes David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., musician Common as civil rights leader James Bevel, Tim Roth, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Carmen Ejogo. The film will be directed by Ava DuVernay, and produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Oprah Winfrey, according to Variety.
Ribisi's last movie, A Million Ways to Die in the West, was reviewed on TheCelebrityCafe, and can be found here)
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