Justin Timberlake To Play Reporter In Big Screen Debut

MTV News has details on *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake’s big-screen acting debut in the crime drama ‘Edison’, in which he’ll play Joshua Pollack, “a fresh-out-of-college kid with a counterculture bent” who gets his start by interning at a big-city newspaper, writer/director David Burke said. To prepare for his role, Timberlake plans to shadow an actual print journalist to learn what daily news reporting is like. That arrangement should be made within the week, but is being kept confidential so that the reporter can still do his/her job without the added spotlight, ‘Edison’ producer Randall Emmett said. Read more.