Editorial Staff
The U.S version of Aussie TV gem “The Slap” has snared quite the cast. According to Deadline, Brian Cox (“X-Men 2”) and Zachary Quinto (“Star Trek”) are set to join already-announced Mary Louise Parker and Peter Sargaard.
The Slap is described as a complex family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple’s misbehaving child. The seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, begins to expose long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core American values of all who are pulled into it. Quinto will play Harry. Married and with a 15-year-old son, he is a mechanic/dealer specializing in expensive European automobiles who lives with his family in a Brooklyn loft. Always trying to pick a fight, he messes with the wrong guy when he slaps another couple’s horribly misbehaving child. Cox will play Manolis, the bearded patriarch of the family.
The Australian version featured, among others, Melissa George (“Alias”) and Sophie Lowe (“Once Upon A Time in Wonderland”).
