Cameron Douglas Films First Post-Prison Acting Job, 'Dead Layer'

2/21/2018 Cameron Douglas Films First Post-Prison Acting Job, 'Dead Layer'

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The indie short ﬁlm — written and co-directed by Carter Winter with Aleksey Reznikov — stars Douglas as a grafﬁti artist in New York City.

Cameron Douglas, son of Oscar winner Michael Douglas, has taken his ﬁrst major step in kick-starting his acting career once

again, ﬁlming a lead role in the indie short ﬁlm Dead Layer.

The project, which shot over the weekend in New York and Brooklyn, comes from ﬁrst-time actor-turned-ﬁlmmaker Carter

Winter, who directed it alongside Aleksey Reznikov. Penned by Winter, the redemption story casts Douglas in the role of a New York graﬃti artist who gets fed up living on the streets in obscurity. While he hopes to transition to a better life, he ﬁnds

himself caught in a terrible crime which continues to haunt him as he inches closer to success. The title Dead Layer is a nod to the painting term — artists sometimes make use of underpainting, done in grey scale, before adding color in order to create value and depth to a new work.

The ﬁlm also will feature performances by Josh Mostel and Paulie Redding. Winter and his producers Jennifer Paul and Dechen Thurman have assembled a team that includes director of photography Jeﬀrey Hagerman. Winter conceived the

project during his years living in Brooklyn. He ﬁrst developed it as a ﬁlm project and later turned it into a TV show, but now there's hope to turn it into a series or longform project. After meeting Douglas through Thurman, brother of Uma Thurman, Winter molded the project to suit Douglas' natural mannerisms and his "power as an actor," Winter told The Hollywood

Reporter.

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"The guy has a big heart," Winter continues of Douglas. "He's very dedicated and disciplined and is serious about being the

third Douglas to be a movie star — and he deserves it. He's a pleasure to work with. I see big things for him in the future."

The project marks Douglas' ﬁrst after being released from prison for drug charges. He met with a judge in New York this fall, and according to the New York Post's Page Six, the judge OK'd the 38-year-old to move to Los Angeles to pursue acting full-

time in a city where both his father and grandfather reached legendary actor status.

Douglas is repped by UTA. His other acting credits include Loaded, Adam and Eve, It Runs in the Family and Mr. Nice Guy. The actor has been documenting his new gig on Instagram.

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Cameron Douglas and Carter Winter on set at LES Skatepark in New York's Chinatown neighborhood shooting Dead Layer. (Credit: Drew Gilbert) Courtesy of Drew Gilbert

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Why Abby Elliott is Tuning In To 'Saturday Night Live' Again

DECEMBER 5, 2017 12:16PM PST by Brian Porreca

The actress left 'SNL' in 2012, but that doesn't mean she stopped watching.

On the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, Alec Baldwin's bronzed-up and wig-wearing President Trump was visited by his

ghosts of Christmas past.

And partly now thanks to Baldwin (and Trump) some former SNL cast members are revisiting the longtime sketch series.