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Casting
With Crowe set to direct and co-write the screenplay, casting got underway to find the right cast to portray the members of an ordinary family placed in extraordinary circumstances. For the central role of Benjamin Mee, a single father out of his depth in several ways, the filmmakers wanted an actor who would bring a sense of decency, higher purpose and humor. For Crowe, both the real life Benjamin Mee and his cinematic counterpart are further defined by their relentlessness. "He does not give up," says the director. "And I love that he's that kind of guy. Nothing is going to stop him."
Matt Damon got the nod to play Benjamin Mee. For Damon, who has worked with the world's greatest filmmakers - including Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Gus Van Sant, Anthony Minghella, the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, and Paul Greengrass - the prospect of working with Crowe, a director he's long admired, was a key attraction for taking on the role. "The reason I came aboard was a hundred percent Cameron," Damon enthuses. "He sent me a script, but he also gave me over an hour's worth of music that he had selected, as well as the film Local Hero - he kind of gave this whole bundle to me and said, 'This is kind of the feeling of what I want to do. He explained that 'Local Hero' is a dramatic movie that's also a very funny movie, giving you a wonderful happy-sad feeling. It really gave me a great sense of the movie he wanted to make. Cameron's sensibility is unique and he's such a brilliant writer and director that I thought the film could really fly with him at the helm."
Damon was intimately familiar with Crowe's ability to craft films infused with comedy, drama and memorable dialogue. "There are incredible moments in Cameron's movies where you're getting so much about who the people are and you're laughing at the same time," Damon says. "You find yourself laughing and then unexpectedly affected by something. He's able to use humor to get your guard down. It just feels so real, and yet it's so uniquely Cameron. In fact I think every character is some version of him. He kind of infects everybody around him with that little piece of him that we all relate to. It's why the films are tonally so tight and coherent, because in some ways it's come out of him."
Casting was still a long way off when McKenna was penning her first script draft, but she did something completely unexpected. "I decided to write the character of Benjamin Mee as if it were Matt Damon," she recalls. "He's sort of an everyman, intelligent, masculine, and he has a great sense of humor. But it never occurred to me in my wildest dreams that it would actually end up being Matt Damon."
Adds Crowe: "Matt always bring a cache of trust, and in the same way, Benjamin Mee is a character I trusted when I read the book and Aline's script. Matt plays Benjamin from the heart, with a lot of truth, and that's why you believe in his journey."
Damon's Benjamin Mee, prior to beginning his new life at the zoo, was an adventure-seeking writer who in the course of his career had interviewed Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, flew into the eye of a hurricane, and become encircled by thousands of killer bees. "At the beginning of the movie he's a journalist - he's been a journalist his entire adult life - he's always looking for an adventure and has had all these incredible experiences," Damon says. "Benjamin has traveled around the world and done all kinds of extraordinary things."
But as the story opens, Benjamin finds himself struggling with the balancing act of raising two kids, ages 14 and 7. "Benjamin decides that they need something new - and so he sets off to find a new place to live, and he finds this beautiful piece of property - and it feels like destiny," says Damon. "Then they discover that there's an old zoo that comes with the property. Benjamin knows nothing about zoos, but in the spirit of adventure his late wife would have appreciated, he decides to go for it and buy the zoo."
Upon their arrival at their new home/zoo, Benjamin and his family meet head zookeeper Kelly Foster, played by Scarlett Johansson. Kelly is a no-nonsense, down to earth animal advocate and the voice of conscience for the zoo's occupants. "Kelly is a very practical person, good-natured, and loves animals," says Johansson. "She's very much a person who gets it done and gets it done well and leaves no loose ends. This zoo and these animals are her whole life."
Johansson notes that Kelly is, initially, somewhat wary of the Mee family. "She thinks of them as yet another in a long line of owners who probably saw the zoo as their little project, threw some money at it, and then disappeared. However, Kelly begins to see Benjamin take control of different projects and he seems to be totally dedicated and keeps sticking around. Through his apparent dedication she starts to believe in this guy and thinks, maybe this could be different."
Johansson says she was drawn to McKenna's and Crowe's script. "It has this incredible dialogue I could wrap my head around," Johansson says. "I also thought the story was very unusual because there's something old-fashioned about it. It's a film about family, about finding your passion and believing in yourself. It's very real and gritty. It deals with overcoming your own fear. It has a lot of those gritty, real-life qualities that makes it reminiscent of the classic films of the 1970s."
"The great thing about Scarlett is she truly is a lover of animals and immediately understood and connected to that," Yorn says. "It's very different from any part she usually plays. People have such an expectation of her being the femme fatale. In this film she really gets to show another side." Adds Crowe: "Scarlett brings a great humanity to the role that conveys Kelly's ferociously protective spirit. Kelly is going to fight to save that zoo and its animals."
The Benjamin-Kelly dynamic provides one of the film's many surprises. Says Damon: "You would think that they would get together and the movie becomes about that love story, but it's not. Among other things, the film is about two characters who both love the zoo. They build a friendship and closeness out of their shared passion for this project they're working on together. And out of that comes this really genuine thing between them, which by the end of the movie, probably becomes something else."
Duncan Mee, Benjamin's older brother and voice of reason, is played by Thomas Haden Church, who earned an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his memorable role in Sideways. Whereas Benjamin Mee sees no obstacle that is insurmountable, Duncan is ever skeptical about his brother's new mission. Despite his doubts, Duncan supports his brother. "Duncan is the truth-teller in the movie," says Crowe. "For the first half of the movie, Duncan is trying to convince Benjamin that buying the zoo is the worst mistake of his life. Eventually, he becomes Benjamin's greatest ally in this outlandish endeavor. And he does it in a way that makes you feel that he'd be a great older brother to have."
"Duncan is supposed to be the voice of responsibility and accountability - not for the least of which he's an accountant," Church says. "He thinks the zoo may be the riskiest financial proposition to be conceived by anybody. But he has great affection for the kids and for his brother and ultimately his priority is their health and happiness. By the end of the movie, Duncan understands more about the humane thrust of what they're trying to do as opposed to the financial threat it poses to the family."
WE BOUGHT A ZOO reunites Crowe with actor Patrick Fugit, who made his film debut with the starring role as Crowe's alter-ego, William Miller, in the filmmaker's semi-autographical 2000 comedy-drama Almost Famous, based on Crowe's own early life story as a teenage rock journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine. The 28 year-old actor - who was only 16 at the time of Almost Famous - notes that although he and Crowe kept in touch after that seminal experience, it had been a few years since they had spoken. "I was a little anxious about meeting Cameron for this role," Fugit admits. "I've grown a lot since then and he's grown a lot, and so much is different now. But as soon as we started getting into the scenes, it was like I was 16 again."
Fugit plays Robin Jones, one of the zookeepers and its resident craftsman and handyman. Jones' constant companion is a capuchin monkey named Crystal, which spends most of her time perched on Robin's shoulder. "When I met with Cameron for this part and we had our reading, he mentioned, 'I think Robin is going to have a capuchin monkey,'" Fugit recalls. "During rehearsal, I met Crystal and her handler Thomas Gunderson, so we could establish a good rapport and make it look like we'd been hanging out a long time."
Elle Fanning, star of the thriller Super 8, plays Kelly Foster's bubbly cousin, the young beauty Lily Miska, who lives and helps out at the zoo and its restaurant. When the Mees move in, she becomes fascinated with Benjamin's teenage son Dylan. "Lily lives in her own world," says Fanning, who celebrated her 13th birthday during production. "She's been surrounded by animals her whole life, so she doesn't really know how to relate to people that well. Dylan is like an exotic creature to her. She starts wearing makeup and tries to flirt with him, but she doesn't really know how because she's never had a crush on a boy. Lily tries hard to impress Dylan."
Lily's feelings are reciprocated - but now Dylan is the one confused by his first brush with love. In depicting their burgeoning relationship, Crowe draws parallels to Benjamin's story of romantic longing years earlier when he first met his wife Katherine by mustering what he calls "20 seconds of courage." "Benjamin tells Dylan that all you need are those 20 seconds of insane courage, and something great will come of it," Crowe elaborates. The fatherly advice resonates even more, he adds, "because Benjamin is realizing its importance to his own situation at the zoo."
The film's primary antagonist is patronizing zoo inspector Walter Ferris, played by John Michael Higgins, known for his roles in Christopher Guest's "mockumentaries" A Mighty Wind, Best in Show and For Your Consideration. Ferris poses the largest obstacle for Benjamin, because if the zoo fails his crucial inspection, Benjamin won't be able to open it in time for the prime summer tourist season.
Higgins explains what makes Ferris tick: "Strangely, he's a bad guy with a really big heart for animals. He really cares about the animals, which is why he so carefully scrutinizes the Mee operation."
Peter MacCready, the zoo's passionate and visionary architect and enclosure designer, is played by Scottish actor Angus MacFadyen, best known for his role as Robert the Bruce in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning classic, Braveheart.
The character name of 'Peter MacCready' went through several incarnations, but was finally settled upon after MacFadyen was cast in the role. When Crowe saw MacFadyen in his wardrobe for the first time, he was wearing a jumpsuit, and Crowe thought he looked like Pete Townsend. So Peter became his first name. And MacCready (with a different spelling) is the last name of Mike McCready, the lead guitarist of the rock band Pearl Jam, about whom Crowe had recently completed a retrospective documentary.
To portray the Mee children, the filmmakers conducted a nationwide search and online open casting call before eventually deciding on Colin Ford, and relative newcomer Maggie Elizabeth Jones, both natives of Atlanta, Georgia.
Ford's Dylan is having a difficult time in his new environment. "He doesn't see eye-to-eye with his father," says Ford. "Dylan defies him - he's a real smart aleck - and does anything to get underneath his skin."
Matt Damon adds, "Benjamin's relationship with his son is pretty combative. The whole family is getting through the absence of the mom; they're all battling it. Dylan is at that rebellious phase, which combined with what he's going through, makes for a lot of friction between father and son."
Maggie Elizabeth Jones is Benjamin's lively daughter Rosie, who is full of joy, imagination and optimism. She's an old soul who's almost like a caretaker to her beleaguered father. Rosie is played by Maggie Elizabeth Jones, who recently made her acting debut in Footloose. "Rosie is really sweet and really nice, and she's actually the one that gets the zoo to open," the young actress says about her character.
When Benjamin and Rosie are first shown the Rosemoor facility on their initial house hunting excursion, it is Rosie's gleeful enthusiasm for the house and the animals that prompts her father to make it their new home. "Benjamin looks at his little girl, and something clangs inside of him," says Crowe. "He thinks that her reaction of pure joy must be honored. And that's the beginning of him saying to himself, 'Damn, I gotta buy this zoo!'"
For Damon, a husband and father of young children, spending several months at the zoo set transcended work because it offered a lot of family time. "It was great to have all these kids around and have my kids come to set and interact with them," he notes. "I would have been unable to play this character ten years ago; I wouldn't have been able to relate to him. I think that whatever Cameron has gone through in his personal life and whatever I've gone through in my personal life has kind of lined us up to be interested by this material."
With casting complete, the actors settled in for two weeks of rehearsal. They also spent time with animal coordinator Mark Forbes for "animal school" at Moorpark College Teaching Zoo to meet and talk with the zookeepers and train with various species of animals with which they would be working.
Two of the film's zookeepers, played by Patrick Fugit and Angus MacFadyen, underwent "job training," in order to help inform their performances in working with and maintaining the zoo's various animal enclosures.
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MATT DAMON (Bejamin Mee). Hailing from Boston, Damon attended Harvard University and gained his first acting experience with the American Repertory Theatre. He made his feature film debut in Mystic Pizza, followed by roles in School Ties, Walter Hill's Geronimo: An American Legend, and the cable projects Rising Son and Tommy Lee Jones' The Good Old Boys. Damon first gained attention with his portrayal of a guilt-ridden Gulf War veteran in 1996's Courage Under Fire.
Together with his lifelong friend Ben Affleck, Damon co-wrote the acclaimed 1997 drama Good Will Hunting, for which they won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as several critics groups awards for Best Original Screenplay. Damon also garnered Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations, in addition to his Oscar nomination, for Best Actor. Additionally in 1997, Damon starred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker and appeared in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy.
The following year, Damon played the title role in Steven Spielberg's award-winning World War II drama Saving Private Ryan, and also starred in John Dahl's drama Rounders, with Edward Norton. Damon earned his third Golden Globe nomination for his performance in 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, directed by Anthony Minghella. Damon's subsequent film credits include Kevin Smith's Dogma, with Affleck, Robert Redford's The Legend of Bagger Vance, Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses, the Farrelly brothers' comedy Stuck on You, Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm, and George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Damon and Affleck formed the production company LivePlanet, which produced three Emmy-nominated seasons of Project Greenlight, chronicling the making of independent films by first-time writers and directors. The Project Greenlight films produced include Stolen Summer, The Battle of Shaker Heights and Feast. LivePlanet also produced the documentary Running the Sahara, directed by Oscar winner James Moll.
In addition, Damon is the co-founder of Water.org and a founder of Not On Our Watch.
He has been honored for his work on both sides of the camera, most recently earning Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominations, for Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of South African rugby hero Francois Pienaar in Clint Eastwood's true-life drama Invictus. In addition, he garnered dual Golden Globe Award nominations in 2010: for Best Supporting Actor for Invictus; and for Best Actor for his performance in Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! Earlier this year, Damon starred in director Steven Soderbergh's thriller Contagion; in Kenneth Lonergan's drama Margaret. He also lends his voice to the animated feature Happy Feet Two, directed by George Miller. Earlier this year, Damon starred in George Nolfi's thriller The Adjustment Bureau. In 2010, he starred in the Coen brothers' Oscar-nominated remake of the classic Western True Grit, Clint Eastwood's drama Hereafter, and the action thriller Green Zone for director Paul Greengrass.He had previously starred under Greengrass's direction in The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. Damon originated the title role of Jason Bourne in Doug Liman's 2002 action blockbuster The Bourne Identity. His other recent film credits include Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning Best Picture The Departed, Robert De Niro's dramatic thriller The Good Shepherd, and Stephen Gaghan's geopolitical thriller Syriana. Damon also teamed with Clooney and Brad Pitt as part of the all-star casts of Soderbergh's heist comedy hit Ocean's Eleven, and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen.For the small screen, Damon both executive produced and appeared in the History Channel project The People Speak, based on a book co-written by historian Howard Zinn and featuring dramatic readings and performances from some of the most famous names in the entertainment industry.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON (Kelly Foster) A New York native, Johansson made her professional acting debut at the age of eight in the off-Broadway production of Sophistry, with Ethan Hawke, at New York's Playwright's Horizons.' She is a four-time Golden Globe nominee and BAFTA winner. Recently, she won critical acclaim and a Tony for her Broadway debut in the Arthur Miller play A View from a Bridge, opposite Liev Schreiber. Johansson was seen in the box office hit Iron Man 2 playing the role of Black Widow, and will reprise that role with The Avengers, opening in May 2012. She has started production on the independent film Under the Skin for director Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast); Johansson plays the lead role. Johansson received rave reviews and a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her starring role opposite Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, the critically-acclaimed second film by director Sofia Coppola. She was recently seen in the box office hit He's Just Not That Into You. Prior she starred in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona and played Mary Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl. In 2009, Johansson released her second studio album of duets with Pete Yorn, called Break Up, which received multi-platinum status. Before that, she released the album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, a collection of Tom Waits covers featuring one original song. At the age of 12, Johansson attained worldwide recognition for her performance as Grace Maclean, a teen traumatized by a riding accident, in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer. She went on to star in Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, garnering a Best Supporting Actress award from the Toronto Film Critics Circle. Johansson was also featured in the Coen Brothers' dark drama The Man Who Wasn't There, opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand.
Her other film credits include the critically acclaimed Weitz brothers film, In Good Company, as well as a role opposite John Travolta in A Love Song for Bobby Long, which garnered her a Golden Globe nomination (her third in two years.) and Woody Allen's Match Point, which garnered her fourth consecutive Golden Globe nominee in three years. Other film credits include The Spirit, Girl with a Pearl Earring opposite Colin Firth, The Island opposite Ewan McGregor, Brian DePalma's The Black Dahlia, Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, and The Nanny Diaries.
Johansson's additional credits include Rob Reiner's comedy North, the thriller Just Cause, with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne, and a breakthrough role at the age of 10 in the critically-praised Manny & Lo, which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead.
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH (Duncan Mee) received an Academy Award nomination for his role as Jack starring opposite Paul Giamatti in Alexander Payne's critically acclaimed film Sideways. Upcoming is the crime thriller Killer Joe. Prior to this Church filmed Another Happy Day and was seen in Easy A.In 2009, Church starred in Don McKay, and was also seen in All About Steve, as well as in Imagine That. Church will next be seen in John Carter of Mars. Church gained worldwide notice for starring as the villian Sandman, aka Flint Marko, in the third installment of Sony Pictures franchise, Spider-Man 3, which was 2007's biggest box-office success. That year, Church also starred opposite Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker in the Miramax film, Smart People.
Church won an Emmy Award and received a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild nomination for his role as Tom Harte opposite the legendary Robert Duvall in the critically acclaimed western epic, Broken Trail, directed by Walter Hill, which premiered on AMC/ American Movie Classics. In 2006, Church utilized his unique voice in two voiceover roles: as a cow in DreamWorks' Over the Hedge, and then as the crow, Brooks, in the remake of the classic, Charlotte's Web, released by Paramount Pictures.
Church made his feature film debut in Tombstone, in 1993. His performance is hardly noteworthy, save for the way that he was riddled with bullets at the O.K. Corral. Church first gained prominence for his role as the bucket-headed mechanic Lowell Mather on the long-running NBC series Wings. He is also known for his lead role in the FOX series Ned and Stacey, in which he starred opposite Debra Messing as the self-righteous Ned Dorsey. In 1997, Time magazine proclaimed that the character of Ned was one of the six reasons to watch television. That same year, and for the same performance, Church was declared unfit to live with dogs by National Public Radio.
Church has also had roles in numerous feature films, most notably opposite Brendan Fraser in the box-office blockbuster George of the Jungle, and the straight-to-cable Free Money, opposite Marlon Brando.
In addition, Church is co-screenwriter and director of the film Rolling Kansas, which premiered as an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Acclaimed by no one, it now comfortably resides on Comedy Central. Church resides on his ranch in Texas.
WE BOUGHT A ZOO marks the reunion of PATRICK FUGIT (Robin Jones) with writer-director Cameron Crowe, for whom he made his Hollywood movie debut in the 2000 coming-of-age tale, Almost Famous, when Fugit was 16. Discovered in a national casting search, Fugit became widely known for playing William Miller, a young rock-fan-turned-reporter based on the early career of its director Cameron Crowe, the youngest journalist for Rolling Stone Magazine. Already a classic, Almost Famous is touted as one of the ten best movies of the decade from 2000-2010. Fugit was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. His mother, Jan, a dance teacher who raised Fugit and his younger siblings, encouraged the youngsters to perform. Fugit credits Jan with developing his early interest in the dramatic arts. From junior high and into high school, he also began studying the craft of acting in theatre school during his summer vacations. Fugit made his stage debut in a school production while in the seventh grade. Inspired by his love of performing, he decided to become a professional actor, and went on to land several guest roles in locally shot television episodes throughout his teens. Following his 2000 debut in Almost Famous, Fugit played a sweetly geeky, aspiring comic book artist in the 2002 drama White Oleander, and a naive drug addict in the indie dark comedy Spun. His next film, Saved! was a satirical look at the religious right in high school. In 2005 Fugit starred in The Amateurs, an independent comedy about a sleepy town that comes together to film a porno, and in 2007 he starred in Wristcutters, A Love Story. In 2009, Fugit portrayed the role of Evra the Snake Boy in the 2009 fantasy-thriller Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.
Earlier this year, he was seen in HBO's Cinema Verite alongside James Gandolfini, Diane Lane and Tim Robbins. The film tells the behind-the-scene story of the groundbreaking 1973 PBS Documentary series, An American Family.
ELLE FANNING (Lily Miska) made her feature film debut in 2001, at the age of two, when she co-starred as Young Lucy in I Am Sam. Since then she has starred in more than 10 films and numerous episodes of television (including Criminal Minds, Dirty Sexy Money, and The Lost Room miniseries). She co-starred in the family comedy Daddy Day Care. In 2004, Elle appeared in The Door in the Floor, from director Tod Williams. In 2005, Elle starred as the young Sweetie Pie Thomas in Because of Winn-Dixie. In 2006 Elle appeared in Babel, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. In 2007, Elle filmed Reservation Road and The Nines. In 2008, she appeared in director David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Also that year, Elle starred in the independent film Phoebe in Wonderland. Late last year, Elle starred in Somewhere. Earlier this year, she starred in two films: Super 8, for director J.J. Abrams, and Twixt Now and Sunrise for director Francis Ford Coppola. Then came Pure Life, a Van Fischer film, where she is to star opposite Vera Farmiga. Besides acting, her other passions include singing, dancing and writing. She resides in Los Angeles with her parents and sister, Dakota Fanning.
COLIN FORD (Dylan Mee) was born in Nashville on September 12, 1996, where he lived twenty-four hours before his family relocated to Atlanta. At age four, Colin modeled in print ads for regional and national retailers in Atlanta magazines and newspapers. At age five, Colin broke into film as Clinton, Jr. in the feature, Sweet Home Alabama, and he was forever hooked on film acting.
Ford was cast in such independent films as Moved, The Book of Jane, and When Harry Met Lloyd: Dumb and Dumberer. In 2004, Colin portrayed Matthew Steed in the movie, The Work and the Glory.
The year 2005 began with a high-profile photo shoot for W Magazine opposite Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, in which Colin portrayed one of Pitt's children. Then, Colin was cast in a recurring role on Smallville. He played Matthew Steed in The Work and the Glory: American Zion followed by a leading role, as Jackson Patch, in The Dog Days of Summer, with veteran actor Will Patton.
Capping off a busy year, Colin played Zeph, the son of Jason Statham (Farmer) and Claire Forlani (Solona) in the epic adventure, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Story, released in 2006.
In addition to print, television and film, Colin has a passion for voice work. Colin voiced the role of Mikey in Disney Playhouse's Alligator Manners. In addition, he voiced Dart, the reindeer, performing with Kathy Bates, Andy Griffith, Jay Leno, Ed Asner, Shirley Jones, and many others in the film Christmas is Here Again, released in 2008.
At age 10, Colin was cast as Jack in the independent film, Jack and the Beanstalk. He starred opposite Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek in the feature film Lake City, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009. Ford's other film credits include Push and the independent film, Ticket Out, released in late 2010. He recently starred in the independent film, Eye of the Hurricane.
Ford's extensive television credits include guest starring roles on Journeyman, Private Practice, CSI: Miami, Close, Hawaii Five-O, Close to Home, and American Family. He is most remembered for his recurring portrayal of young Sam on the CW's hit series, Supernatural. Colin had the role of Jake in the Playhouse Disney series, Jake and the Never Land Pirates.
Colin and his family reside in Los Angeles, California. When he is not busy with acting he enjoys skateboarding, football, basketball and golf. Most recently Colin has started bringing his love for dancing and music to others. In his free time, Ford now enjoys DJ-ing events.
MAGGIE ELIZABETH JONES (Rosie Mee) began her acting career in a television commercial in 2007. Born in October 2003, the eight-year-old has since done several commercials and print advertisements. In 2010 she booked her first theatrical role in Footloose, in which she plays Amy Warnicker, the cousin to the film's star, Kenny Wormald. She also guest starred in the FOX Network pilot, Most Likely to Succeed.Maggie lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her parents and two sisters.
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