A Timeless Love

  'To pursue something that's as hard as this...it all comes down to passion': JORDAN POPE SAYS IN CONVERSATION ABOUT HIS JOURNEY AS AN ACTOR Director Emma Sumlin recently sat down with Jordan Pope to discuss his upcoming role as Pearce Lauder in the short film Timeless. Tell me about yourself. What are the most important things that define you, that you would want people to know?       "Obviously, like, pursuing the dream. Like a lot of people, I have this moral and it's like, don't let fear dictate your life. And a lot of people will say, you know, 'The odds of you succeeding in this is extremely low? Why? Like, why not just have something to fall back on?' And I heard this Denzel Washington speech. As soon as I heard it, it kind of changed my whole thing that you don't wanna find something to fall back on, you just wanna find something to fall forward on. So you're not falling back. You're falling forward. And I'm like, wow. So that...

EMMA SUMLIN'S NEW FILM FOLLOWS YOUNG LOVE IN THE 40s AND WILL BREAK YOUR HEART    Jordan Pope, lead actor, describes the screenplay as "powerful."     Timeless , the new short film, written by Emma Sumlin and directed by both Sumlin and Jonathan Collins, is set to start filming in July of 2024. The film will be a black-and-white, silent film, and will be shot in Springtown, TX.     The film stars Jordan Pope as Pearce Lauder, Grace Adams as Marjorie Kent, and the supporting cast, Tia Ola, Sean Sicard, Emma Durrence,  Gideon Donaldson-Quepóns, Sophia Swim, Jonah Lewis, and David Eagleston. Most of the cast are DFW local, but Pope, Swim, Durrence, and Lewis are traveling from out of state.     The idea for the film came about in March of 2023, when Sumlin, Adams, and Emily Gathright, the lead of Sumlin's first film,  We Were Happy , sat down after a long day to discuss an idea for a potential second film.      Adams had expr...