'Paranormal' thesp joins 'Fundamentalist' cast

SmithChris Cruz, charge actor in "Paranormal Activity 3," originates aboard for Mira Nair's feature "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" opposite Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber and Kiefer Sutherland.Cruz will portray a co-worker to Ahmed's character.The Doha Film Institute boarded "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" to purchase noisy . October. Pic, based on Mohsin Hamid's tome and modified for screen by Hamid, Bill Wheeler and Ami Boghani, follows the story from the youthful Pakistani guy chasing after after corporate success on Wall Street inside the era of globalization -- getting a seismic alternation in the attitudes after 9/11.Lydia Dean Pilcher might be producer. The pic, a Mirabai Films and Cine Variety production, began lensing captured with shooting in Atlanta, Gotham, Lahore, Delhi and Istanbul.Cruz is repped by Paradigm and Principato-Youthful. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com