One Week in Hollywood

Taking a Meeting

On today's agenda at Revolution Studios is casting for The Forgotten, a supernatural thriller about a grieving mother (Julianne Moore already has the part) whose dead son may be a figment of her imagination. Oscar-winning producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen (American Beauty), Revolution partner Todd Garner (above right, with Cohen), development exec Scott Bernstein, and director Joseph Ruben (The Good Son) are running through a list of names (we've agreed not to reveal) to play a detective who befriends Moore. Garner envisions a Jodie Foster-in-The Silence of the Lambs type. Cohen thinks one TV-drama actress radiates the right toughness -- ''she's got balls, it's all about her balls.'' The others are unconvinced. The name of a not-quite-A-list beauty is floated. ''Too model-y,'' says Ruben. The group dismisses an indie regular as muted, then focuses on an action-prone star (''she's tough and sexy,'' Ruben enthuses) -- but has she gotten too big for a supporting role? Garner argues that the actress will be ''in 80 percent of the movie, and [she's given such an intriguing scene]people will be talking about it. It seems like a real actor would want to do this.'' Let's go back to that Jodie Foster idea...