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Zoey Deutch to play Allman's groupie lover in biopic
Written by . Published: January 23 2014
Zoey Deutch has landed the female lead in the upcoming Allman Brothers biopic, Midnight Rider.
The young Beautiful Creatures star will play a rock groupie called Mae, who became Greg Allman's love interest as his band was starting out.
She joins Tyson Ritter, Wyatt Russell and William Hurt in the
Randall Miller movie.
Ritter and Hurt will both play Greg Allman in the film, while
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell's son Wyatt will portray his brother
Duane.
Director Miller tells WENN he's thrilled with the latest casting
news: "Zoey's freshness and intensity blows me away. She is both
young and wise. I can't wait to work with her."
Midnight Rider will be an adaptation of Gregg Allman's bestselling
biography My Cross To Bear.