PORT TOWNSEND — September’s Port Townsend Film Festival is looking for another special guest star after the leading lady for the 2008 role backed out.
“It happens,” shrugged Peter Simpson, artistic director of the festival.
“But I believe that’s the worst thing that’s going to happen this year.”
Simpson wouldn’t name the actress.
Other sources — and the first clues in a “Guest the Guest” contest run by the festival — suggested she is Cloris Leachman, who has one an Oscar and eight Emmys.
According to Simpson, the actress signed to a production contract this summer, precluding her from coming to Port Townsend for the Sept. 26-28 festival run.
“She has been accepted for a major fall television show, and the production company won’t let her honor prior commitments,” Simpson said.
“[This kind of conflict] is just the nature of the business.”
