Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
One of the most critically acclaimed films of the year is crawling with Raiders.
Jonathan McNeal, the manager of The Neon movie theater downtown, said numerous Daytonians and Wright State University alumni played a part in “Dark Waters,” a film starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins and William Jackson Harper filmed partly in Cincinnati.
Stand-outs include Bruce Cromer, a Wright State acting professor who plays an attorney in “Dark Waters.”
“This was his very first film,” McNeal said of the veteran of stage productions. “It is not just a couple of lines. It is a ‘part’ in the film.”
Wright State graduate Hannah Beachler, an Oscar winner for her work on “Black Panther,” was the film’s production designer.
Beachler learned of her Oscar nomination during the filming of Black Waters.
Dayton resident Karri O'Reilly was the film’s production supervisor for the warm weather unit.
According to O’Reilly and McNeal others from the Dayton area or the program now called the Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures at Wright State University included Chance Madison, Mike Dittiacur, Casey Shelton, Laura Dennings, Scott Lipez, Scott Bowers, Denise Dal Vera, Selena Burks-Rentschler, Ryan Tudor, Russ Faust, Kasey Hosp, Leah Byrd and Sara Mackie.
