Who is in casting Babylon?
Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad, an elderly pioneer in the silent film industry, who struggles to adjust to the new world of sound. Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRue, an aspiring actress who knows she’s a star before she becomes a star. Manny Torres from Diego Calva is the protagonist of Babylon, a Mexican-American runner, desperate to get into the film industry. The supporting cast includes Jean Smart as Elinor St. John, a powerful Hollywood columnist, Jovan Adepo as jazz trumpeter Sidney Palmer and Lee Jun Lee as Chinese-American cabaret singer Lady Fei Zhu.
Notable cameo roles include Tobey Maguire as mob boss James MacKay, Katherine Watterson as Estelle Conrad (Jack’s third wife), Flea as studio executive Don Wallach, Eric Roberts as Nellie’s father Robert Roy, Ethan Suplee as McKay’s bodyguard Wilson, Olivia Wilde as Ina Conrad. (Jack’s ex-wife) and Spike Jonze as German director Otto von Strasberger.
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