Julia Mayorga & Allegra Leguizamo Join Brad Furman’s ‘People Not Places’

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Mayorga (American Rust) and Allegra Leguizamo (Tin Soldier) have been tapped for roles alongside Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine and Stephen Dorff in the indie drama People Not Places from director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer).

Written by Ellen Brown Furman (The Infiltrator), the filmmaker’s mother, pic watches as Clare (MacLaine), an elderly widow living in Atlantic City, meets an erratic homeless man (Dorff) who sleeps in cars. Their shared loneliness causes them to bond, as they find the courage to face his regrettable past and her shortened future.

Mayorga plays Sarah, Clare’s stunning daughter-in-law with an artistic flair, who creates jewelry. Her husband Cole is torn between his need to support Sarah’s ambition and his mother’s need for more time with her son.

Leguizamo plays Allison, a young woman who asked for a gardener but got much more.

Furman and Jess Fuerst (Tin Soldier, City of Lies) are producing the film under their Road Less Traveled Productions banner. Jim Seibel (Nyad, The Grey) and Kyle David Crosby (Mending the Line, Bring On the Dancing Horses) are also producing.

Currently, Mayorga can be seen opposite Jeff Daniels, Bill Camp and Maura Tierney on Showtime’s American Rust, which moved to Prime Video for its second season earlier this year. She can also be seen leading the drama Rare Objects, marking the latest directorial outing of Katie Holmes.

Seen on series like The Equalizer and New Amsterdam, Leguizamo will next appear in Furman’s action thriller Tin Soldier, starring Jamie Foxx, Robert De Niro and Scott Eastwood, as well as Rachel Israel’s comedy The Floaters starring Jackie Tohn, Aya Cash, Jake Ryan, and Seth Green. Recently, she wrapped production on Flash Warning, a short film she stars in, which she also wrote and directed.

Mayorga is represented by UTA, Mosaic, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Leguizamo by Mosaic.