Suganami Joins Stone's 'White Lies' Cast
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- Stephanie Suganami has been cast in Oliver Stone's new film 'White Lies,' joining a cast that includes Josh Hartnett, Leila George, Michael Douglas, Willem Dafoe, Ellen Barkin, Homer Gere, and Yvonne Chapman.
- 'White Lies' marks Stone's first feature since 2016's 'Snowden' — a nearly decade-long gap — with Stone directing from his own screenplay that follows Jack Freeman (Hartnett) across three generations of family, loss, and rediscovery.
- Suganami will play Chika, a woman who gets to know Jack and his son Joe, in the ensemble drama.
- The film is produced by Fernando Sulichin's New Element Media alongside Maximilien Arvelaiz and Jordan Gertner, with Eagle Pictures' Tarak Ben Ammar and Gianluca Leurini executive producing alongside James Packer and Jose Luis Manzano.
- Suganami's prior credits include the A24 horror film 'Opus' (Sundance premiere, starring Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich), Amazon Studios' 'Something from Tiffany's,' and the Fantastic Fest premiere 'Theater Is Dead.'
- On television, Suganami was cast in Kenya Barris' Hulu pilot 'Group Chat' and recurred in Starz's 'Power Book II: Ghost' as Perla Tanaka opposite Michael Ealy, with additional credits on FX/Hulu's 'Dave' and Ryan Murphy's 'Doctor Odyssey.'
- Suganami is also a social entrepreneur and climate activist with close to 2 million followers who co-founded @FutureEarth, serves as an ambassador for John Kerry's World War Zero initiative, and recently joined the boards of Al Gore's The Climate Reality Project and The People Concern.
Why it matters: The casting marks Stone's return to feature filmmaking after a nearly decade-long absence since 'Snowden,' and adds a rising actress who carries nearly 2 million social media followers and board seats at Al Gore's Climate Reality Project to an ensemble that already includes Oscar-winners Douglas and Dafoe.
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