The Venice Film Festival is right about the corner and we’ll have our first look at Chris Pine in his first italian speaking role in a movie in “The Kidnapping of Arabella”. In an interview with The Playlist, director Carolina Cavalli tells about how she cast Chris in the movie and more. Check it out:

The Playlist: Allow me to be the first person to ask this question before you get asked it about a thousand times. How did you get Chris Pine to star in this movie, and how did you know he could speak Italian, I think, fluently?

Carolina Cavalli: Yes, he’s fluent. I heard he wanted to act in a different language in Italian specifically. So when my agents put me in touch with him, I thought he just maybe wanted to talk about acting in Italian or the industry or how it is shooting in Italian. I wasn’t immediately understood that maybe he could have been interested in playing a character in this film. And then when I realized it, I was very happy about it, and yeah, this is how it happened. And his Italian is good.

Did he have to read the script before he said yes?

When I understood that maybe there was a chance for him to play this character, I immediately asked him, “Can I send you the script?” He read it, and then it happened that he was in Rome when we were having rehearsals in this small, small theater in Rome. And he came, we tried together the part, and his Italian was great, and in the end he told me, “Listen, I want to do it.” And I was very happy.

So you were in rehearsals. Were you still waiting to cast this part up to the beginning of filming? Was this last-minute?

It was a very last-minute casting process for a couple of roles. One was this, and the other one was Granatina [Eva Robin’s], because they’re both very difficult for me, because they’re short, but I would say intense roles. So, I was looking for a very specific actor or actress to play these roles. And I think Chris was perfect for this.

To read the whole interview, click here.

Chris Pine has a new project, he is set to lead the Texas crime thriller ‘Nowhere Fast’ from ‘Fargo’s’ director, Noah Hawley. Check more details bellow:

Chris Pine appears to be heading back into “Hell or High Water” waters with a role in a new crime thriller.

The “Star Trek” and “Don’t Worry Darling” star will take the lead in “Nowhere Fast,” a Texas crime thriller following a small-town criminal who inadvertently kills the nephew of his boss. The film is being written and directed by Noah Hawley, who created the FX series “Fargo” and “Legion” and most recently created — and directed — the upcoming series “Alien: Earth.”

26 Keys Productions, Hawley’s Austin-based film and TV production company, is producing.

30West, which exec produced and financed Pine’s “The Contractor,” is financing and will co-represent the U.S. rights for “Nowhere Fast” alongside CAA Media Finance. AGC International, the international sales arm of thriving independent studio AGC Studios, will represent the foreign rights. Additional casting is currently underway.

Pine is represented by CAA, Viewpoint, and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham.

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Chris Pine’s first children’s book, ‘When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel’, has been released this week, on October 08th! To promote it, Chris went to different talk shows and gave some interviews to talk about the book. You can check all of them bellow:

Hello everyone, after some months without any updates, Chris Pine Network is back! I’m so sorry for that. Our gallery has been updated with all the missing events Chris has attended in the last couple of months, such as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the 49th Chaplin Award Gala in April, promoting ‘Poolman’ at the Today Show and The Kelly Clarkson Show in May, the Ralph Lauren Purple Label Presentation and Dinner in June and most recently, promoting his first children’s book, ‘When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel’, this week.

Chris attended last night, April 24th, the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Poolman’, his directorial debut. To celebrate the happy occasion, he decided to dress up as his character in the movie, Darren Barrenman. You can check all the photos from the event in our gallery:

Chris is set to narrate a new documentary about the space called ‘Space: The New Frontier’! The news was exclusively reported by Deadline and you can check more details bellow:

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pine, who famously played Captain Kirk in the Star Trek reboot, is set to narrate Space: The New Frontier, a documentary made for IMAX, Giant Screen and specialty theatres by Definition Studios Australia in association with K2 Studios.

The doc examines how humankind has continued to push the scientific boundaries of what is possible in space, following the pioneers and visionaries from private companies as well as NASA and other international space agencies – expanding the limits of science, engineering and the human body to enrich life on earth. From new launch to reusable rocket technologies, commercial space stations to NASA’s Artemis Moon to Mars program, living and working in space is closer than we think, according to the new doc.

Pine, who is coming off the back of his directorial debut Poolman andis a supporter of Children’s Hospital and The Orchid Foundation, a mentorship and scholarship program for underserved girls, said: “I remember seeing these shows in IMAX when I was a kid, so to be a part of it is a real blessing and I can’t wait to inspire kids.”

Space: The New Frontier will roll out in 3D and 2D IMAX, Giant Screen and Dome theaters at space museums, science centers and other cultural destinations worldwide, starting with the Kennedy Space Center in this month. The film will roll out globally over the next several years. STEM outreach and resources include classroom visits from MIT alumni and space architects at Aurelia Institute seen in the film as well as hands-on activities and lessons for teachers.