Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei has joined the cast of Keep the Lights On director Ira Sachs’ newest feature, Love Is Strange. She joins the previously announced John Lithgow and Alfred Molina in the New York-set indie about a recently married gay couple’s forced separation.
Tomei will play Kate, a novelist married to Lithgow’s nephew, who lets his uncle move in with them after he’s forced to sell his small apartment. Says Sachs, “Marisa brings an intelligence, warmth and graceful humor to everything she does. From our first meeting, it was clear that in her hands the role of Kate would resonate deeply with audiences. She elevates all of us involved to be at our very best.” Production begins in New York City later this month.
