Gary Oldman cast in Paolo Sorrentino's new Naples movie
Gary Oldman has been cast in Paolo Sorrentino's new film. The 65-year-old actor has landed a role in the untitled Italian-language drama that is currently filming in Naples. Details about Oldman's part have not been revealed, but Sorrentino's film is about a woman named Partenope "who bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth". In Greek mythology, Parthenope – as she is known in English – is the name of a siren who, after failing to lure Odysseus with her songs, cast herself into the sea and drowned. Her body washed up on a symbolic foundational rock where Naples lies. Sorrentin...