Beau Sia plays Norman Sklear, a wedding czar emcee guy in Rachel Getting Married. He helps plan the rehearsal dinner and wedding with Rosemarie and Anisa George (Emma). It was an unscripted character imposed on the filming by casting Beau — an actor and poet.
Here’s a synopsis of Rachel Getting Married
When KYM (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister RACHEL (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis, family conflict and tragedy along with her. The wedding couple’s abundant party of friends and relations have gathered for a joyful weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym—with her biting one-liners and flair for bombshell drama—is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.
Filled with the rich and eclectic characters that remain a hallmark of Jonathan Demme’s films, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED paints a heartfelt, perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait. Director Demme, first-time writer Jenny Lumet, and the stellar acting ensemble leaven the drama of these difficult but compelling people with wry affection and generosity of spirit.
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More about Beau Sia
Beau Sia is a Chinese-American poet from Oklahoma City. Beau has been featured in the award-winning film Slam and the documentary Slam Nation. He wrote the poetry book, A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge and two spoken word CDs, Attack! Attack! Go! and Dope and Wack. In 2001, Sia received the California Arts Council Writer-in-Residence grant for Youth Speaks, and was the lead artist for the Creative Work Fund. Beau has appeared on all seasons of HBO’s “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry,” and is one of the original cast members in Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, for which he was a 2003 Special Event Tony Award Winner. Sia is currently working on a new theater piece for the opening of the Museum of the Chinese in America in New York City. Prior to “Rachel Getting Married,” Sia was seen in Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate and coincidentally, in a TV on the Radio music video.