ME AND ORSON WELLES

Plus exclusive audience Q&A
with multi award-winning actor
for his astonishing portrayal of Orson Welles,

CHRISTIAN McKAY

Live from London!

Monday JULY 19TH - 7PM (sharp)
Event Cinemas Bondi Junction

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Based in real theatrical history, ME AND ORSON WELLES is a comedic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937.

The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night has the charismatic-but-sometimes-cruel Welles (impressive newcomer Christian McKay) staking his career on this risky production while Richard (Zac Efron) mixes with everyone from starlets to stagehands in behind-the-scenes adventures bound to change him.

Claire Danes co-stars as Sonja Jones, the unapologetically ambitious assistant to Welles whom Richard tries to woo. Ben Chaplin plays Mercury Theater regular George Coulouris. The fast-moving screenplay by Holly Gent Palmo and Vince Palmo is based on Robert Kaplow’s meticulously researched novel of the same name with Oscar®-nominated director Richard Linklater (School of Rock, Before Sunset) at the helm.

ABOUT CHRISTIAN McKAY

Christian began his musical education as a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, before studying piano at Chetham’s School of Music and, subsequently, at the University of York, the Royal College of Music and the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia. After several years touring Europe and Australia as a successful and critically-acclaimed concert pianist, he turned to acting, training at RADA (The Royal College of Dramatic Art). On graduation, he was recommended by Lord (Richard) Attenborough to the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in Anthony and Cleopatra at Stratford-Upon-Avon and in London’s West End. His other successful stage appearances include his award-winning performance as Orson Welles in Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles at the Edinburgh Festival and in London, Toronto and New York. His feature film debut, Abraham’s Point, with Mackenzie Crook, was completed shortly before he began work on ME AND ORSON WELLES. He can next be seen in Bernard Rose’s biopic of drug smuggler turned author and raconteur Howard Marks, Mr. Nice and the new untitled Woody Allen film which has just completed principal photography.