Josh Close To Star In Indie Veteran Drama ‘American Solitaire’

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Close (Killers of the Flower Moon) has signed on to star in American Solitaire, an indie drama marking the first feature from writer-director Aaron Davidman.

He stars in the film as a U.S. soldier struggling to make sense of civilian life when he is confronted with the complexities of gun violence in America. Pic’s producers are Davidman, Lisa Bruce (The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour), David Oyelowo (Selma, The Water Man) and Dylan Kussman (Wrestling Jerusalem). Marcus Gardley (What’s Going On, The Color Purple) is serving as consulting producer.

Most recently, Close was seen playing Horace Burkhart, the brother of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Osage murderer Ernest, in Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-nominated epic Killers of the Flower Moon. Prior to that, he starred opposite Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson in the acclaimed drama Monica, which was released by IFC Films after world premiering in Venice. Other recent credits for the actor include the CBC series Plan B opposite Patrick J. Adams as well as the Epix miniseries The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.

Also previously seen in the Jeremy Renner drama Kill the Messenger, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and FX’s Emmy winner Fargo, Close is represented by Buchwald, Impression Entertainment, and Myman Greenspan Fox.