Scottish Actor Shoots with Brad Pitt!

Raised in Edinburgh Ruari Cannon is a rising star and after appearing in Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” his future acting career looks promising. The movie, which was directed by Marc Forester, is about a U.N. employee racing around the world to save the population from a potentially deadly Zombie pandemic. The 20-year-old plays a zombie named Meth and has said this about the role:

“It was tough because my character is a zombie and is dead behind the eyes. He is supposed to have given up on life itself but he turns a corner.”

Shooting face-to-face with Brad Pitt himself the young actor learned a lot and received some specialist advice on his first ever film role. At just 17 it seems his talent was clear and Ruari won a Scholarship to study at the American Academy for Dramatic Arts in New York. Previously Cannon was heavily involved in stage productions such as “Oliver!”, “The Merchant of Venice” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

The city of Glasgow was lucky enough to play host to the film set of “World War Z” and last August part of the town was transformed into Philadelphia. Glasgow was home to around 1200 cast and crew and as a result of this the city has been said to have made around 2 million pounds in profit. Unfortunately the eagerly anticipated apocalyptic movie isn’t to be released in the UK until January 2013.

Here is a link to a newspaper article about the “World War Z” filming in Glasgow last year.