“Orphan Black” star joins Matthew McConaughey in “Sea of Trees”

PanARMENIAN.Net - “Orphan Black” star Jordan Gavaris has been added to the cast of “Sea of Trees” opposite Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts, Variety said.

Gus Van Sant is wrapping principal photography on the drama, filmed on location in Japan and Massachusetts.

McConaughey and Watanabe portray men on a journey of reflection and survival in the Aokigahara, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan’s Mount Fuji where a reportedly large amount of suicides occur. Watts plays McConaughey’s wife.

Producers are Gil Netter, Ken Kao, Kevin Halloran, F. Gary Gray, Brian Dobbins, Allen Fischer and Chris Sparling, who wrote the screenplay.

Alex Walton and Ken Kao’s sales, production and financing company Bloom introduced “The Sea of Trees” to buyers Cannes and by the end of the festival had sold out the world. Post-production is under way in Los Angeles.