[Sundae]

Character Treatment
Supporting Artist (spoken part)
Working Title: There’s a Zombie in My Cellar!

Aging character actress (25-35)
Willing to put on weight, but pref wear fat suit (think red carpet detail/ interviews afterwards)
Lines can be added if actress is high enough profile to be recognised in Oscars ie Jessica Simpson.
Caucasian unless script changes made (see below) NO native Americans - role already cast for pre-title sequence shooting.

Note, can also be played male (50+) with minor script changes - more lines added.

Character is alcoholic, poss drug addict if black. If male, reason shown in tragic back-story.
Uses sexual favours to obtain drug of choice (female only). Benefit to actress wearing fatsuit is a flashback sex scene can be shown (topless). Black actress can be hooker, no nudity required.

Often incoherent and querulous (nasty). May bond with Professor/ Social Worker (see other character treatments) but more likely to be dismissed by Scientist depending on casting. Very whiny. Needs to be set up as unpleasant. Death will be deserved but shocking. If black actress, should play the part aggressively and only bond with other black actors (unlikely to be cast)

If male, acerbic and witty, bonds with Heroine because his sense of anarchy appeals to her. Secretly admired by Hero, disgusts Housewife who is shown as being stuffy and insular by this. Death will be shocking and lead to a downbeat.

Under pressure from addiction and unable to seduce Scientist (female) or persuade Hero of excellent plan (male), the character makes a break from safety. Realising at last minute that colleagues are compromised by this action, makes heroic self sacrifice (male) or dies inconveniently (see Shelley Winters).