Samara Weaving and Judah Lewis join McG’s The Babysitter

By Cody Hamman

Posted 11 years ago

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Last month, we learned that McG will be directing a “coming-of-age horror story” called THE BABYSITTER, working from a screenplay by Brian Duffield that

follows a young boy and his babysitter on a night where things go very wrong, with the boy learning a few lessons about life, love and murder along the way.
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Casting is currently underway, and we now know who the stars of the film will be: Australian actress Samara Weaving has landed the role of the eponymous babysitter, while her 12-year-old charge will be played by Judah Lewis.

Weaving has primarily worked in Australian television to this point, including four years on the soap opera Home and Away. She has a major US TV appearance coming up soon, as she’ll be seen on the Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead.

Lewis co-stars in the upcoming Jake Gyllenhaal dramedy DEMOLITION, plays a young Johnny Utah in the POINT BREAK remake, and was apparently one of the youngest actors in contention to play the new Spider-Man.

I have yet to see either of these actors in anything, but I will be seeing them in THE BABYSITTER for sure. This sounds like a very interesting project to me.

Source: Variety, THR

Tags: aith, Arrow in the head, Judah Lewis, McG, Samara Weaving, The Babysitter

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