Alexa Vega in Helix
Alexa Vega will star in the movie Helix made by writer and first time director and Aram Rappaport. Alexa plays a beautiful young woman who gets abducted by two desperate urban youths in Chicago. They’re witnessed by a street dweller who doesn’t know whether to involve himself or stay out of it. The last of five main characters is a corrupt cop who learns that his corrupt tendencies have bad implications but does this too late.
Now this story sounds okay and seems like a normal independent movie project. This however is not the case, the movie will be shot in one take. So this means the movie will not be edited afterwards, it also means that the actors need to know the script by heart and can’t afford to make mistakes. They only have five days for rehearsals and the movie will be shot a total of five times, five days in a row.
This is pretty much as big of an acting challenge as you can conceive, for Alexa this basically means that if she does a good job of it she might be noticed more and it can launch her career a bit more. However if she messes up it could also destroy her career.
