{"id":706458,"date":"2026-06-16T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706458\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:46:09","slug":"oliver-stones-white-lies-movie-casts-stephanie-suganami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706458\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Stone’s ‘White Lies’ Movie Casts Stephanie Suganami"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: We\u2019ve learned that Oliver Stone<\/a>\u2018s new movie White Lies<\/a> has cast actress and social entrepreneur Stephanie Sugnami.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe joins a cast that includes Josh Hartnett, Leila George, Michael Douglas, Willem Dafoe, Ellen Barkin, Homer Gere and Yvonne Chapman. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs we previously reported, it\u2019s the first feature film for the three-time Oscar-winning Stone since 2016\u2019s Snowden. He\u2019s directing off his own screenplay that explores family, loss and pain and uncovers how love can change shape during our lifetimes.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite Lies is told across three generations, and follows Jack Freeman (Hartnett), a child of divorce now repeating his parents\u2019 mistakes in his own marriage and with his own children. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled journey to escape \u2014 only to find himself more lost than before. When he meets a woman whose life is the opposite of his own, he begins an unexpected journey on the path of rediscovery.<\/p>\n

\n\tSuganami will play the role of Chika, a woman who gets to know Jack and his son, Joe.<\/p>\n

\n\tFernando Sulichin produces alongside Maximilien Arvelaiz and Jordan Gertner for Sulichin\u2019s New Element Media. Tarak Ben Ammar and Gianluca Leurini of Eagle Pictures are executive producing with James Packer and Jose Luis Manzano.<\/p>\n

\n\tSuganami\u00a0previously starred in the A24 horror pic Opus opposite Ayo Edebiri, Amber Midthunder, Young Mazino, John Malkovich and Murray Bartlett, directed by Mark Anthony Green. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in March last year. Other feature credits include the Amazon Studios and Hello Sunshine feature Something from Tiffany\u2019s with Zoey Deutch and Shay Mitchell. She also starred Theater Is Dead, directed by Katherine Dudas, which had its premiere at Fantastic Fest.
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On television, Suganami most recently was cast in Kenya Barris\u2019 Hulu pilot Group Chat. She recurred in the latest season of Starz\u2019s Power \u2013 Book II: Ghost opposite Michael Ealy in the role of Perla Tanaka. Other credits include the last season of the FX\/Hulu series Dave, and Ryan Murphy\u2019s network procedural Doctor Odyssey.\u00a0
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Outside of her film endeavors, Suganami. with close to 2 million followers,\u00a0is a champion for global activism. She has partnered with prominent lifestyle brands such as American Express, Google, Kerastase and Bulgari.
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Suganami\u00a0co-founded the digital climate education platform @FutureEarth,\u00a0and\u00a0is an ambassador for The Environmental Working Group and John Kerry\u2019s World War Zero climate change initiative. She also recently joined the board of Vice President Al Gore\u2019s The Climate Reality Project and Los Angeles-based social service organization The People Concern.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe is repped by Gersh, 1v1 Entertainment and Granderson Des Rochers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: We\u2019ve learned that Oliver Stone\u2018s new movie White Lies has cast actress and social entrepreneur Stephanie Sugnami.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,104813,304988,242724],"class_list":["post-706458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-oliver-stone","tag-stephanie-suganami","tag-white-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706458","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=706458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}