The Pittster Takes on Prop 8, Too

Brad Pitt isjoining BFF George Clooney at March 3’s West Coast reading of 8, Dustin Lance Black’s play about the Prop 8 trial.

And the actor’s playing a big part to boot – that of U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who found the measure to be unconstitutional after presiding over the 12-day public trial.

Pitt joins a star-studded cast that also includes Martin Sheen, Christine Lahti and Jamie Lee Curtis as a lesbian couple, Matthew Morrison and Matthew Bomer as a gay couple, as well as Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, James Pickens Jr. from Grey’s Anatomy, and Chris Colfer from Glee, among others.

8 will tour the country throughout the year, but don’t expect the same celeb star power to accompany the production when it comes to a city near you, though. This particular cast is only expected to work together this weekend.

Photo: FashionOnRock.blogspot.com.

Update: A friend just told me the play will be simulcast on YouTube.

Awesomeness!