The ever-resourceful Tim Roth (“The Incredible Hulk”, “Pulp Fiction”, “Lie to Me”) will play Alabama governor George Wallace in the Martin Luther King biopic “Selma”.
Roth joins a cast that includes David Oyelowo as MLK, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon Johnson, and Cuba Gooding Jr as American civil rights lawyer and activist Fred Gray.
Ava DeVernay directs the Paramount housed production.