Jane Curtin Boards ‘Little Five’ Film From Anne Hathaway’s Somewhere Pictures & Pigasus Pictures
Jane Curtin has joined the cast of "Little Five," an upcoming period film produced by Anne Hathaway's Somewhere Pictures alongside Pigasus Pictures. The former Saturday Night Live star will play Dean Weston, a formidable university leader who mentors and challenges a group of young female cyclists striving to break into a male-dominated collegiate sport. The casting adds a notable veteran name to a film already generating buzz for its true-story inspiration and community involvement during filming.
Set in the early 1980s at Indiana University, the film draws on the real history of the Little 500 bicycle race and follows four young women forming the university's first women's team to compete in the event. Curtin joins previously announced cast members Rain Spencer, Ariana Greenblatt, Sasha Frolova, Nadia Alexander, David Oyelowo, Drew Powell and Max Cortezi. Ian Samuels is directing from a screenplay by Gillian Williams and Paul Shoulberg, with production currently under way in Bloomington, Indiana, using hundreds of local residents as extras.
- Jane Curtin joins Anne Hathaway-produced film "Little Five"
- She plays a university dean mentoring female cyclists
- Film dramatises the first women's Little 500 bicycle race
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Indiana University’s Little 500 is an annual bicycle race in Bloomington, Indiana, first held in 1951. It is a relay race in which teams ride laps around a track, and it became a major university tradition.
The race was originally for men. In the early 1980s, four women formed the university’s first women’s team to compete, at a time when women had fewer opportunities in organised sport. Their effort is the real history behind the film.
Anne Hathaway’s Somewhere Pictures and Pigasus Pictures are producing the period drama, set at Indiana University. It follows the young cyclists as they try to enter the race and compete in a sport dominated by men.