{"id":63339,"date":"2025-08-06T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:45:07","slug":"kelly-osullivan-lois-smith-co-starring-in-comedy-the-steel-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63339\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly O’Sullivan, Lois Smith Co-Starring in Comedy ‘The Steel Harp’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKelly O\u2019Sullivan and Lois Smith<\/a> will co-star in \u201cThe Steel Harp.\u201d The comedy is directed by O\u2019Sullivan and Alex Thompson, the filmmakers behind \u201cGhostlight<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt marks one of the first leading movie roles for Smith, a 94-year-old character actress who won a Tony Award for \u201cThe Inheritance\u201d in 2021. In addition to starring in the film, O\u2019Sullivan wrote the script. Cherry Jones and Reed Birney co-star in the movie, which recently wrapped production in San Francisco. <\/p>\n

\n\tSmith plays Hanna, a cantankerous nonagenarian, who patrols the Golden Gate Bridge every day and intervenes when people get too close to the edge. On what was to be Hanna\u2019s last day as a \u201cbridge watcher,\u201d she stops Amy (O\u2019Sullivan), a younger woman as stubborn as Hanna herself, from jumping. As the holiday season sets in, Amy and Hanna challenge each others\u2019 resolve and form a bond.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Steel Harp\u201d is the second independent film Thompson and O\u2019Sullivan have made this year. They are also currently in post-production on the coming-of-age film \u201cMouse,\u201d which stars Sophie Okonedo, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Chloe Coleman, Tara Mallen, Iman Vellani and David Hyde Pierce. \u201cThe Steel Harp\u201d is a co-production of Ley Line Entertainment and Fusion Entertainmen, which previously produced \u201cBetween the Temples.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSmith\u2019s first on-screen role was in 1955 opposite James Dean in \u201cEast of Eden.\u201d She has appeared in such films as \u201cFive Easy Pieces,\u201d \u201cTwister,\u201d \u201cMinority Report,\u201d \u201cDead Man Walking\u201d and \u201cLadybird.\u201d In 2017, Smith starred as the title character in Michael Almereyda\u2019s \u201cMarjorie Prime,\u201d receiving Gotham and Independent Spirit nominations for best supporting actress among other accolades. On stage, Smith was nominated for Tonys for her performances in \u201cThe Grapes of Wrath\u201d and \u201cBuried Child.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn front of the camera, O\u2019Sullivan is best known for her role in the award-winning 2020 film \u201cSaint Frances,\u201d which she wrote and Thompson directed. She received a Gotham Award nomination for breakthrough actor for her performance. On the small screen O\u2019Sullivan appeared in two seasons of \u201cSirens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJones is a Tony Award winner whose theater credits include \u201cThe Heiress\u201d and \u201cDoubt.\u201d She also won an Emmy for \u201c24\u201d and has appeared in \u201cSuccession,\u201d \u201cSigns,\u201d \u201cErin Brockovich\u201d and \u201cThe Perfect Storm.\u201d Birney is a Tony Award winner for \u201cThe Humans.\u201d His screen credits include \u201cMass,\u201d \u201cThe Menu\u201d and \u201cHouse of Cards.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Steel Harp\u201d producers are Thompson, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Chelsea Krant, Adam Kersh, Rheagan Khearney and Pierce Cravens.<\/p>\n

\n\tLey Line Entertainment is a content development, production and financing company with projects spanning film, television, stage and music. Its films include \u201cThe Green Knight,\u201d \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once, and \u201cDeath of a Unicorn.\u201d The company also produced the Olivier-winning and Tony-nominated musical \u201c& Juliet.\u201d Upcoming projects include Adam Meek\u2019s \u201cUnion County\u201d starring Will Poulter and Noah Centineo. The company was formed in 2018 by Headington and Steele Page.<\/p>\n

\n\tThompson and O\u2019Sullivan are repped by Gersh and Fusion Entertainment; Smith is repped by AKA and CornerStone; Jones is repped by WME; and Birney is repped by Paradigm and Suskin\/Karshan Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly O\u2019Sullivan and Lois Smith will co-star in \u201cThe Steel Harp.\u201d The comedy is directed by O\u2019Sullivan and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,46946,46947,206],"class_list":["post-63339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ghostlight","tag-lois-smith","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}