Casting About Blake Lively Is a Meth Addict ... in a Movie Blake's rose garden is coming along beautifully. Jamie McCarthy/WireImage *** Blake Lively seems bound and determined to prove herself as a "gritty" actress. First she was the two-bit floozy in "The Town," and now she's going to be in "Hick" with "Kick-Ass" star Chloe Moretz. Lively's role

Blake's rose garden is coming along beautifully. Jamie McCarthy/WireImage *** Blake Lively seems bound and determined to prove herself as a "gritty" actress. First she was the two-bit floozy in "The Town," and now she's going to be in "Hick" with "Kick-Ass" star Chloe Moretz. Lively's role? "I play a mother of a thirteen year-old...a southern woman who is also a meth addict." Amazingly, she won't have to lose any weight for the role. [Variety, or The Playlist if you're thwarted by Variety's paywall]
*** Mary Elizabeth Winstead is undoubtedly a genre girl: Before playing Michael Cera's object of affection in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," she was in horror movies like "Black Christmas" and "Final Destination 3." So it's sorta perfect that she's director Timur Bekmambetov's choice to play Abraham Lincoln's wife Mary Todd in the action-horror flick "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." Hopefully Benjamin Walker (who's playing Lincoln) will be a little less emo than Cera. [Heat Vision/The Hollywood Reporter]
*** Perhaps realizing that his adaptation of author Don DeLillo's "Cosmopolis" is actually going to star Robert Pattinson, "Eastern Promises" director David Cronenberg is working like mad to cast some actual actors in the film. His latest pickups are two French thespians: Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Amalric, who played a man who couldn't move in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" and a bad guy who was really wimpy in "Quantum of Solace." We still don't understand where they're going to fit in a movie that, seriously, is set in a limousine. [