Patricia Arquette, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her 12-year long role in “Boyhood,” will star in the coming-of-age comedy “Permanent.”
The film was written and will be directed by Colette Burson, creator and executive producer of the HBO series “Hung.” Rainn Wilson will also star, along with Michael Greene and 12-year-old newcomer Kira McLean.
The story, according to an official release, is “set in 1983 in a small town where most females with straight hair and bad swimsuits want to be Farrah Fawcett, ‘Permanent’ follows the misadventures of an idiosyncratic family that yearns to feel more confident and artistic, but begins the film in a state of wild insecurity. Set in the south, ‘Permanent’ features toupees, permanents, and schoolyard bullies, and sports the tagline ‘hairstyles are temporary, but family is forever.’”
Patricia Arquette’s 2015 Oscar speech was a force of nature. The “Boyhood” winner used her time at the podium to call for equal rights and equal pay for women, and turned her call into a documentary called “Equal Means Equal.”
“Permanent” will shoot in Central Virginia this summer. Burson is also writing comedic pilot called “Retired” for Amy Powell/Paramount TV and Anonymous Content.
