Former ATWT Actor Joseph Cross in Milk

Joseph Cross will be playing a rile in the new Gus Van Sant film, Milk, about the life of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk. The film will be in limited release as the year goes on and in wider release early next year. Cross is known to soap fans as a former Casey Huges on AS THE WORLD TURNS. His other films include Gregory Hoblit’s Untraceable, opposite Diane Lane; M. Night Shyamalan’s Wide Awake; Barbet Schroeder’s Desperate Measures; Troy Miller’s Jack Frost; Paul Dinello’s Strangers with Candy; and David M. Rosenthal’s upcoming independent feature Falling Up, with Sarah Roemer. In the new issue of Out magazine, star James Franco mentions Cross when discussing Milk: "I don't know if I should talk about Emile [Hirsch], but I think he even asked for that make-out scene with Joseph Cross."