Adam Pearson, the actor who appeared in the Oscar-nominated dark comedy A Different Man, is set to star in a forthcoming adaptation of Bernard Pomerance’s Tony award-winning play, The Elephant Man.
The 40-year-old actor will play Joseph Merrick, the English artist who was born with physical deformities and became a freak show exhibit, in a film written by Pomerance’s son, Moby Pomerance.