See Dawn Swartz channel Gollum in BEN PICKLE!

I've written about Dawn Swartz a few times before on this blog: about how she's a very sweet friend and terrific actress! She had one of the leads in our film Schrodinger's Bedroom a few years ago, and recently she was seen briefly alongside Richard Gere in Nights in Rodanthe.

But look at Dawn now, in this screen cap from the short film Ben Pickle...

Dawn, girl... what did they do to you?! It's like Rick Baker and WETA teamed up to do the makeup on this movie.

Okay, I've got to see Ben Pickle now. I've also got a strange pic of Dawn with glowing eyes. This kind of wild material is screaming for context of some sort :-)

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Which KWerky Productions star is now appearing with Richard Gere in a Nicholas Sparks movie?!

Why, it's none other than Dawn Swartz (playing the nurse on the right), who starred in our short film Schrodinger's Bedroom last year!

Dawn has a role in - and even appears in the trailer for - the new Warner Brothers movie Nights in Rodanthe, starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, James Franco and Viola Davis. It's based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. I was going to go see this anyway 'cuz of the setting (Rodanthe is a small community on North Carolina's Outer Banks) and the cinematography looks beautiful, and Lisa is a big fan of Sparks's books and movies too. Now we've another great reason to check it out!

Here's a page with some links to various formats of the Nights in Rodanthe trailer. And if you're just plain lazy, here it is on YouTube, too (Dawn appears about 12 seconds in)...

Congrats to Dawn! Who is not only a wonderful actress and KWerky Productions family member, but also a very sweet person and a dear friend :-)

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