The legal drama Doubt has been picked up as a CBS series, co-starring Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox. And in a breakthrough for trans actors in Hollywood, it will be the first time a broadcast TV series will have a transgender person playing a recurring transgender character.
Somebody hit the siren, because her royal glamorousness Laverne Cox has just been cast as a star on Doubt, a new pilot being developed for CBS.
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New Jez heroine, Doubt's Viola Davis, doesn't get stressed about roles or finding an Oscar dress: "Pressure to me is not having a job, not having enough money for food, and having marital problems." [Reuters]
Viola Davis - up for an Oscar for Doubt - was on the Tonight Show last night. I haven't seen Doubt, nor heard Ms. Davis interviewed before, but she was all sorts of awesome.
How did critics treat Doubt, a film starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymor Hoffman and based on the award-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, the film's director/writer? The answer, of course, after the jump.
