Vancouver actress lands role in ‘Pompeii’

TORONTO – Canadian actress Jessica Lucas has landed a role in the 3D epic Pompeii.

The Vancouver native, who currently appears in the box office hit Evil Dead, joins a cast that already includes Kit Harrington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland and Jared Harris.

Pompeii, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, shoots in Toronto from late-April until early July.

Lucas will play the slave of Browning’s character Flavia in the movie, which is set in the days leading up to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and follows a Naples-bound slave as he struggles to get home to save his gladiator friend and the woman he loves.

Lucas, 27, appeared in the feature film Cloverfield and had a starring role in the short-lived reboot of TV’s Melrose Place.

Lucas and Sutherland are not the only Canadian stars involved in Pompeii — Hamilton, Ont. native Currie Graham and Vancouver’s Carrie-Anne Moss are also in the cast.