Naomi Watts
and Peter Jackson will participate in Rick McKay’s upcoming documentary, “Fay Wray: A Life,” including never-before-seen footage from the historic dinner McKay hosted where Jackson met his childhood idol Wray for the first time and Wray passed the proverbial baton to Watts and approved her casting.
In the movie Fay Wray tells of coming to America on a daring trip by stagecoach over the Canadian Rockies almost a century before and of early Hollywood in the ‘20s and ‘30s.
The centenary celebration of Wray’s birth (September 15th, 1907) includes a special evening at New York City’s
Film Forum on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007, with Wray’s 1927 silent film “The Wedding March,” where she was handpicked by her costar, director Eric Von Stroheim, screening alongside the first peek at a quarter hour of McKay’s Fay Wray documentary. The evening will include special appearances by McKay, Wray’s daughter/actress Susan Riskin, film historian Foster Hirsch and Film Forum’s Bruce Goldstein.
