Mayor Nutter meets Miley, Dreyfuss, Hemsworth on 'Paranoia' set
Director Robert Luketic let Mayor Nutter call "Action" on the South Philly set of "Paranoia" Tuesday afternoon. Nutter watched actors Richard Dreyfuss and Liam Hemsworth, who play father and son, shoot a scene in the corporate-espionage thriller. He chatted up the director and actors and also Hemsworth's fiancee Miley Cyrus.
Mayor Nutter meets Miley, Dreyfuss, Hemsworth on 'Paranoia' set
Dan Gross
Director Robert Luketic let Mayor Nutter call "Action" on the South Philly set of "Paranoia" Tuesday afternoon.
Nutter watched actors Richard Dreyfuss and Liam Hemsworth, who play father and son, shoot a scene in the corporate-espionage thriller.
Nutter spent time talking with Luketic, Dreyfuss, Hemsworth and Hemsworth's fiancée, Miley Cyrus, who was hanging on set at Bardascino Park at 10th & Carpenter.
The mayor told us Tuesday that it was great to meet Luketic and the actors and that he had grown up on Dreyfuss' films. "Each of them separately told me that this was their first time filming in Philadelphia and that it's easy to make movies here, everyone is welcoming, and they are blown away by the restaurant scene," Nutter told us.
He praised film-office chief Sharon Pinkenson for attracting movies to the city and called it "an economic winner for the city" whenever a film shoots here.
How about Mayor Nutter stop worrying about large sodas and celebrities and act like a mayor and do something about the rampant crime in the city?— neddyflanders- I heard he wanted to get their thoughts on a new actors tax City Council is planning to enact. You'll need a $300 business privilege license to act within City limits and then fork over 8% of your gross earnings.— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
- I wonder if Nutter is going to sue the actors if they skip town without paying their license and taxes. Ask any local actor about these frivolous lawsuits. Just about every local Equity member has been victim of one. — DonQ
- Hey Ned, Center City is the money-generating engine of the City. Nutter's primary obligation is to keep the City fiscally solvent. By promoting movie making, he is doing that. It might enable him to hire more police, although the nature of the crime is primarily people shooting people as part of drug activity or domestic violence. You want to lower crime? Legalize drugs and ban automatic handguns. But the people most for "law and order" always oppose those policies. So the killings go on. Still, it's very safe in Center City Philadelphia.— Palestra Jon
- @palestrajon: I'm with you, all the way to that last part. You're right about promoting anything that brings tax dollars to Philly being a good thing. While the legalizing drugs thing is a bit cynical, I'm OK with it; the only thing that makes them valuable is their worth as illegal contraband; so if people want to spend their lives as burnouts while all of the crime associated with it goes away, that's fine. But you're kidding yourself with the automatic handgun ban; those that register them are not out using them , and the criminals that get them illegally and use them on our streets don't care if there's an extra gun charge with the murder and other charges they face when they finally get busted.— drbob1
- Did Nutter ask Miley to go bowling so he can slap that asp?— LouDiamondPhillipsheadScrewdriver
