Disney's "The Little Mermaid" is filled with plenty of familiar faces, including Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, and Javier Bardem. But the film also features a handful of fresh faces, like Jessica Alexander, who plays Ursula's human alter ego, Vanessa.
Alexander wanted to pursue acting from a young age and landed her first major role on the Italian teen drama, "Penny on M.A.R.S.," which aired on Disney Channel in Italy from 2018 to 2020. Following her success on the show, Alexander went on to star in the BBC iPlayer series "Get Even," which helped her gain popularity onscreen and land roles in "Glasshouse," "A Banquet," and "Into the Deep" between 2021 and 2022.
In March 2021, Alexander got her big break stateside when she was cast to play Vanessa in the live-action adaptation of "The Little Mermaid" and has been on everyone's radar ever since. Touching on being a part of the film, the actor told Something About Rocks,...
Alexander wanted to pursue acting from a young age and landed her first major role on the Italian teen drama, "Penny on M.A.R.S.," which aired on Disney Channel in Italy from 2018 to 2020. Following her success on the show, Alexander went on to star in the BBC iPlayer series "Get Even," which helped her gain popularity onscreen and land roles in "Glasshouse," "A Banquet," and "Into the Deep" between 2021 and 2022.
In March 2021, Alexander got her big break stateside when she was cast to play Vanessa in the live-action adaptation of "The Little Mermaid" and has been on everyone's radar ever since. Touching on being a part of the film, the actor told Something About Rocks,...
- 5/29/2023
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
Jessica Alexander, who starred in the recent psychological horror movie A Banquet (pictured above) and the dystopian thriller Glasshouse, is now playing the lead role in Fallen, a supernatural series being made for the Brazilian streaming service Globoplay. Fallen is now filming, and given the fact that most of the cast are not Brazilian I have a feeling the show is going to be available on other services than Globoplay at some point.
Alexander’s co-stars include Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso), Gijs Blom (The Letter for the King), Timothy Innes (The Last Kingdom), Josefine Koenig (My Name Is Josy), Lawrence Walker (The ReZort), Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness (Days of the Bagnold Summer), Laura Majid (Five), Courtney Chen (FBI: International), and newcomers Esme Kingdom, Maura Bird, Samantha Bell, and Julian Krenn.
Inspired by Lauren Kate’s bestselling Fallen series of novels, the first season of the...
Alexander’s co-stars include Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso), Gijs Blom (The Letter for the King), Timothy Innes (The Last Kingdom), Josefine Koenig (My Name Is Josy), Lawrence Walker (The ReZort), Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness (Days of the Bagnold Summer), Laura Majid (Five), Courtney Chen (FBI: International), and newcomers Esme Kingdom, Maura Bird, Samantha Bell, and Julian Krenn.
Inspired by Lauren Kate’s bestselling Fallen series of novels, the first season of the...
- 9/16/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Stars: Jessica Alexander, Anja Taljaard, Hilton Pelser, Adrienne Pearce, Kitty Harris, Brent Vermeulen | Written by Kelsey Egan, Emma Lungiswa de Wet | Directed by Kelsey Egan
A brand-new post-apocalyptic gothic sci-fi melodrama from South Africa, Glasshouse is one of a growing number of genre films to stem from the country, yet one that is not really known for its genre output but one whose culture and landscape are just rife with terrifying possibilities. The film stars British actress Jessica Alexander (the upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid) and newcomer Anja Taljaard as the sisters, Bee and Evie, opposite Hilton Pelser as The Stranger.
Glasshouse is set after The Shred, an airborne dementia, has left humanity roaming like lost and dangerous animals, unable to remember who they are. Confined to their airtight glasshouse, a family does what they must to survive – until the sisters are seduced by a stranger who upsets the family’s rituals,...
A brand-new post-apocalyptic gothic sci-fi melodrama from South Africa, Glasshouse is one of a growing number of genre films to stem from the country, yet one that is not really known for its genre output but one whose culture and landscape are just rife with terrifying possibilities. The film stars British actress Jessica Alexander (the upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid) and newcomer Anja Taljaard as the sisters, Bee and Evie, opposite Hilton Pelser as The Stranger.
Glasshouse is set after The Shred, an airborne dementia, has left humanity roaming like lost and dangerous animals, unable to remember who they are. Confined to their airtight glasshouse, a family does what they must to survive – until the sisters are seduced by a stranger who upsets the family’s rituals,...
- 3/8/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell’s thriller short The Recordist leads the nominations for the 23rd South Australian Screen Awards, featuring in seven categories.
Alies Sluiter ’s Myth – The Go-Between and Kiara Milera and Charlotte Rose’s Waiyirri were also well represented in the field of 82 nominees announced yesterday, each securing five nods.
To be held in-person at Mercury Cx next month, the awards celebrate South Australian key creatives and crews across short films, music videos, web series, and games with total prizes valued at more than $30,000.
Winners will be presented across 24 categories, including drama, comedy, documentary, animation, web series, games, music video, acting, hair and makeup, design, sound, music, editing, cinematography, writing, directing, and producing.
Mercury Cx CEO Karena Slaninka said that for the nominees and winners, the recognition provided a stepping stone for which to build their careers.
“Getting a Sasa means something,” she said.
“In each case,...
Alies Sluiter ’s Myth – The Go-Between and Kiara Milera and Charlotte Rose’s Waiyirri were also well represented in the field of 82 nominees announced yesterday, each securing five nods.
To be held in-person at Mercury Cx next month, the awards celebrate South Australian key creatives and crews across short films, music videos, web series, and games with total prizes valued at more than $30,000.
Winners will be presented across 24 categories, including drama, comedy, documentary, animation, web series, games, music video, acting, hair and makeup, design, sound, music, editing, cinematography, writing, directing, and producing.
Mercury Cx CEO Karena Slaninka said that for the nominees and winners, the recognition provided a stepping stone for which to build their careers.
“Getting a Sasa means something,” she said.
“In each case,...
- 11/5/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Dystopian stories can run the gamut. Mad Max isn’t The Road isn’t The Hunger Games and so forth. While they all deal in a society that has crumbled, they are all very different in their approach and in their world building. What they usually have in common is the lack of some sort of a resource. Water, food, clean air, fuel - something is lacking and has become a commodity more valuable than gold. In Kelsey Egan’s dystopian story Glasshouse, that resource is a little more personal. A little harder to define. It’s memory.
Glasshouse tells the story of a family living out their days in a post apocalyptic world from the comfort and safety of their glass sanctuary. In their world, the air has become toxic. Breathing it too long leads to permanent memory loss, which has resulted in the complete shutdown of society. Most of humanity is gone,...
Glasshouse tells the story of a family living out their days in a post apocalyptic world from the comfort and safety of their glass sanctuary. In their world, the air has become toxic. Breathing it too long leads to permanent memory loss, which has resulted in the complete shutdown of society. Most of humanity is gone,...
- 9/28/2021
- by Emily von Seele
- DailyDead
In total isolation, as a pandemic turns the world upside down, a house of glass rises mysteriously out of the mist and forest. Inside, a small family lives in lonely confinement, tending the plants growing within the greenhouse that protect them from the toxic air. Outside the safety of their airtight glasshouse, an airborne neurochemical shreds the memories of its victims. Mother teaches her children the simple laws of their sanctuary and how to preserve precious memories through rituals. Daughters Evie and Bee are two girls on the cusp of womanhood in a strange and violent world—one is dedicated to memory and the other wishes to forget. Together with Mother, Evie and Bee are caring for innocents Gabe and Daisy when a seductive stranger disturbs the tranquility of their sanctuary.
Glasshouse hits a rich yet complex chord in its marriage of folk horror, Gothic storytelling, and vintage science with...
Glasshouse hits a rich yet complex chord in its marriage of folk horror, Gothic storytelling, and vintage science with...
- 8/17/2021
- by Caitlin Kennedy
- DailyDead
A fairytale location
Already one of the most talked-about films among critics attending 2021’s Fantasia International Film Festival, South African science fiction story Glasshouse presents a post-Apocalyptic world as you’ve never seen it before. At the heart of a bleached desert sits a little island of green where a family, presided over by a strict but loving matriarch, holds out against a memory-destroying airborne pandemic by sheltering in an elegant Victorian glasshouse. All is well until a stranger arrives, unsettling their carefully maintained equilibrium.
Kelsey Egan
Meeting director Kelsey Egan in the run-up to the festival, I told her that something that I've always kind of wondered about is what women do in a situation like that and how they survive. It's strange to see a piece of post-Apocalyptic fiction which looks so pretty, not at all like what we're used to encountering...
Already one of the most talked-about films among critics attending 2021’s Fantasia International Film Festival, South African science fiction story Glasshouse presents a post-Apocalyptic world as you’ve never seen it before. At the heart of a bleached desert sits a little island of green where a family, presided over by a strict but loving matriarch, holds out against a memory-destroying airborne pandemic by sheltering in an elegant Victorian glasshouse. All is well until a stranger arrives, unsettling their carefully maintained equilibrium.
Kelsey Egan
Meeting director Kelsey Egan in the run-up to the festival, I told her that something that I've always kind of wondered about is what women do in a situation like that and how they survive. It's strange to see a piece of post-Apocalyptic fiction which looks so pretty, not at all like what we're used to encountering...
- 8/11/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 25th Fantasia International Film Festival opens this week, and there’s lots of great stuff to look forward to. We’ll be bringing you news, reviews and interviews with filmmakers and stars throughout. Today we’re looking at just five of the best feature-length films in the line-up. If you’re in Canada, catch them whilst you can. If not, keep your eyes open for them coming to a screen near you.
Glasshouse
Glasshouse
At an indeterminate time in the future, when human civilisation has been shredded by a pandemic which destroys memories, a small family group holds out in a glasshouse. They see themselves as protectors of knowledge, of tradition, but everything is thrown into crisis when a stranger arrives. Kelsey Egan’s sweetly melancholic fable is subtle in the telling, its big dramatic notes disguising a host of smaller clues which tell a larger story. Its central...
Glasshouse
Glasshouse
At an indeterminate time in the future, when human civilisation has been shredded by a pandemic which destroys memories, a small family group holds out in a glasshouse. They see themselves as protectors of knowledge, of tradition, but everything is thrown into crisis when a stranger arrives. Kelsey Egan’s sweetly melancholic fable is subtle in the telling, its big dramatic notes disguising a host of smaller clues which tell a larger story. Its central...
- 8/3/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
South Africa’s Local Motion Pictures, whose dystopian sci-fi feature “Glasshouse” will world premiere at the Fantasia Intl. Film Festival this month, has signed a three-picture deal with leading SVOD service Showmax.
Under the agreement, which Local Motion signed in association with Crave Pictures, the company will produce a slate of films to be directed by “Glasshouse” helmer Kelsey Egan.
Associate producer Emma Lungiswa de Wet, who co-wrote “Glasshouse” with Egan, says the trio of films will shine a new and unsettling light on South Africa, which continues to reckon with the legacy of Apartheid nearly three decades since its transition to democracy.
“A dystopian slate allows us to look at the underbelly of the dream – what’s at the end of the Rainbow Nation?” said Lungiswa de Wet. “We have a long brutal history that we’re only beginning to come to terms with. We’re a newish democracy,...
Under the agreement, which Local Motion signed in association with Crave Pictures, the company will produce a slate of films to be directed by “Glasshouse” helmer Kelsey Egan.
Associate producer Emma Lungiswa de Wet, who co-wrote “Glasshouse” with Egan, says the trio of films will shine a new and unsettling light on South Africa, which continues to reckon with the legacy of Apartheid nearly three decades since its transition to democracy.
“A dystopian slate allows us to look at the underbelly of the dream – what’s at the end of the Rainbow Nation?” said Lungiswa de Wet. “We have a long brutal history that we’re only beginning to come to terms with. We’re a newish democracy,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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