Reporting by Sharon Hong
In films like "Hustle & Flow," "8 Mile" and "Crossroads," Taryn Manning always seems to play morally-tenuous women finding drama through sex and drugs. For her recently-wrapped flick, Your Name Here," however, she traded tears for tech.
"It's being submitted to Sundance," she said excitedly when she stopped by MTV's Los Angeles studio last week. "It's a movie that me and Bill Pullman did, and I play Victoria Principal."
Portraying the sexpot "Dallas" star, Manning plays opposite Pullman as a doppleganger version of eccentric sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, whose novels about time travel, androids and alternate universes have yielded such classics as "Minority Report," "Total Recall," and "Blade Runner." Read More...
Reporting by Brandy Schaefer
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