With “The Help” making stars – and Oscar nominees/winners – out of its supporting cast including Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer, it was only a matter of time before it spread to the rest of the gang. Variety reports Ahna O’Reilly has landed the female lead in “Jobs”, the first biopic on the late Apple founder out of the gate, with Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and Broadway star Josh Gad as co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Michael Stern directs the indie flick from a script by Matt Whiteley, which is already filming and which will tell the origin of Steve Jobs, from “wayward hippie to co-founder of Apple, where he became one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of our time.” Gad’s Wozniak invented the Apple I computer and then co-invented Apple II in the 1970s with Jobs, while O’Reilly has been tapped for the role of Chris-Ann Brennan, a painter and Jobs’ first girlfriend, who eventually gave birth to his first daughter.
Before her breakout role as Elizabeth Leefolt in “The Help”, O’Reilly had bit roles in movies including “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Nancy Drew.” Since the whirlwind of “The Help” and Oscar season, O’Reilly has completed filming on a quartet of indies: “I Am Ben”, “Miss Dial”, “The Time Being” and “Teddy Bears.”



