Amanda goes drama
Amanda Bynes has landed her first role that doesn’t involve comedy. She’s been cast for a role in the Lifetime movie Living Proof, which is about the development of a breast cancer drug and is based on a book by Robert Bazell. Others cast in the movie Angie Harmon, Bernadette Peters, Swoosie Kurtz and Harry Connick Jr. Amanda’s character is the student assistant to Connick’s character Dennis Slamon.
So this is a TV movie, it might seem a step down for Amanda from Hollywood movies but I understand the move. She has always said she wants to venture into more serious roles and this movie is a drama. It wouldn’t really make a lot of sense for anyone to cast her in a bigger production. This is just a way for herself to discover what she can actually do in the drama genre.
The movie will air in October so we’ll see what Amanda can do in the genre by then. If it’s a failure she won’t have too much egg on her face, she can just as quickly return to comedy. Though sometimes I wonder why she’s so very picky about movie roles, she really doesn’t make that many movies compared to other actresses in her age group.
