March 18, 2018 - JOHN GETZ ("Bosch" and "Transparent") and SAVANNAH LILES (thriller film "Prodigy")




THE BIGGER PICTURE with Timothy Spangler show

Summary: JOHN GETZ, from Amazon Prime's "Bosch" and "Transparent," is our featured guest this week! JOHN has appeared in numerous feature films including "Blood Simple," "The Fly," "Zodiac," "Nanking," "Social Network," "Trumbo" and "Certain Women." His recent TV appearances have included "Bosch," "Timeless," "Transparent," "Ghosted," "Grace and Frankie," "Better Call Saul" and "Homeland." He has been seen in New York in Broadway productions of "M. Butterfly" and "They're Playing Our Song," at the New York Shakespeare Festival in "Macbeth" and "Measure for Measure," and at the American Place Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. Currently, JOHN is starring in Echo Theater Company and Circle X Theatre Company's joint production of "An Undivided Heart" by Yusuf Toropov, directed by Chris Fields and running March 16 through April 22 at Atwater Village Theatre. Set in 1992 Massachusetts against the backdrop of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal and a toxic drinking water scandal, "An Undivided Heart" is part thriller and part spiritual mystery. A series of otherworldly visions and an unlikely encounter with a Zen priest propel Father Mike Cleary into a collision course with his Archdiocese, while Lynne Callahan, a young widow, struggles to make sense of her life in a town whose water has been polluted with deadly chemicals. The two confront a universal problem: How do victims of suffering caused by others find a way to go on?. Also dropping by the show this Sunday night is SAVANNAH LILES, star of science fiction psychological thriller film, "Prodigy"! SAVANNAH dominates the screen with her brilliant performance as she takes on the starring role as "Ellie", a dangerous young sociopathic genius with supernatural powers, matches wits with an unconventional psychologist where they engage in a mind-bending psychological chess match, as the girl's fate hangs in the balance. "Prodigy" premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in March of 2017, which kicked off a nine festival run last year. The film took home Best Narrative Feature honors at the Santa Cruz Film Festival, was a finalist for several other awards and received an overwhelmingly positive response at screenings around the country. It capped of the run with a closing night screening at the Other Worlds Austin Festival in December. She has also appeared on FX's "American Horror Story" and Nickelodeon's "Henry Danger."