Filming of the pilot series “Orpheus” begins in Hope [Canada] next week. The plot line follows the story of a young man who falls in love with a girl who draws him into a modern day cult. The pilot stars Nicholas D’Agosto who appeared in Supernatural, Mena Suvari, (American Beauty), Fairuza Balk, (Almost Famous), and Eion Bailey, (ER and Without a Trace).

Crews will be filming a series of shots throughout Hope on March 14 - 16, reports Jina Johnson, assistant locations manager. The crew’s 12 trucks will begin arriving in the community earlier in the week. According to the district hall, residents can expect intermittent traffic control and no parking areas along Wallace as filming first begins in Memorial Park. A second location for the crew will be in the 700 block of Fourth avenue, as the crews film exterior shots of an apartment building and nearby home. Other shooting locations include the interior and exterior of Darrell’s Cafe in the 200 block of Wallace Street and the exterior of Cheyenne Sports in the 200 block of Wallace Street.

Movie cars will line the street and intermittent traffic control will be in place. Later on in the week the filming will continue at the Coquihalla Bridge on Kawkawa Lake Road, at the Sucker Creek Marsh on Union Bar Road, and at a farmer’s field along Flood-Hope Road.

From The Hope Standard

Mena Suvari has been tapped to star in the CBS drama pilot, Orpheus.

Orpheus, from CBS Par TV, the weekly drama centers on a young guy (Nick D’Agosto) whose girlfriend (Mena Suvari) is involved in a sophisticated, modern-day cult. Australian Bruce Beresford will direct the pilot. Ridley and Tony Scott (’Numb3rs’) will be excutive producers.

Information pulled from ComingSoon.net, MovieHole.net & The Futon Critic

I just wanted to give a little plug to 2 new Mena related websites that I’ve been told about. First is a fanlisting for Claire & Edie [Six Feet Under] called Just For Me and is run by the lovely Hanna (who is one of our fabulous Six Feet Under cappers!) and the second site is a great Mena graphics website where there are icons & wallpapers and other graphic related things and it’s called The Last High and is run by Julie. Fabulous sites - check them out!

‘I’m not going to play a cheerleader again,” says actress Mena Suvari. Suvari is most famous, of course, for playing the cheerleading teenage temptress in “American Beauty.” Still, with her all-American good looks - she’s like the hottest girl in your high school, only prettier - Suvari recognizes that it’s sometimes difficult to leave the schoolyard.

“I look like I’m 15,” she admits. “I try to work on that. I always joke that I should take up drinking and smoking so I’ll look older.” She is at least part of the way there in her latest role - Edie, the ballsy, brazen lesbian who is slowly seducing mopey art-star Claire Fisher (played by Lauren Ambrose) on the HBO series “Six Feet Under.” In real life, Suvari, 25, is married and (her words) “middle aged.” Continue Reading…

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All she would say out loud about getting more than friendly with Mena’s character was, “Well, we start out with a very intense relationship. Her character is very inspiring to Claire’s character as an artist.”

Not exactly confirmation, so we asked Mena herself. “Ooo, I don’t know. Maybe,” she said with a coquettish wink and giving us a twirl in her hot-pink, plunging-neckline BCBG dress. “Edie’s really strong and opinionated but feminine at the same time. She’s a performance artist and she’s friends with Claire Fisher.” Continue Reading…