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By Matthew Purucker<\/a> · Editor-in-Chief<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014 MOSSER CASTING<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mosser Casting is seeking paid extras for the film \u201cButler,\u201d based on Washington Examiner journalist Salena Zito\u2019s account of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The casting company is looking for background actors to portray characters, including rally attendees, event staff, Secret Service, security and vendors, during filming weekdays from Monday through Oct. 23 at locations mostly in Beaver County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story is about Zito combating \u201cmedia sensationalism, personal ethics and the entrenched political divide uprooting the nation,\u201d in the aftermath of the assassination attempt, according to the Lawrenceville-based Mosser Casting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zito published \u201cButler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America\u2019s Heartland\u201d on July 8, 2025, and it debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c(Pens\u00e9 Productions) asked to see an early copy of the book,\u201d Zito said on The Sean Spicer Show in July 2025. \u201cThey were interested. They thought this was a really pivotal moment in history. And they read the book and went crazy for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academy Nicholl Fellow R.J. Daniel Hanna co-wrote the film version of \u201cButler\u201d and is directing it. The Pittsburgh- and Los Angeles-based Pens\u00e9 Productions is producing the movie, which has an \u201canticipated\u201d nationwide theatrical release, per Mosser Casting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film uses the book, as well as congressional testimony and other first-hand accounts for inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat is great news, because this must-read book on the untold story of Donald Trump in Butler would be a must-see movie,\u201d political science professor Paul Kengor wrote in his review of the book in The American Spectator in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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