Wynter Perrineau Cast As Young Shana

Aurora Perrineau's six year old little sister Wynter was cast to play young Shana in Jem & the Holograms according to Black Celeb Kids.

Wynter joins 8 1/2 year old Isabella Rice who plays Young Jerrica, so some version of Out of the Past seems likely in the film. While in Out of the Past, Jerrica, Aja and Shana were all a similar age, Wynter being over 2 years younger than the actress playing Young Jerrica may change the dynamic of the characters and Shana may be Kimber's age in the film or the youngest Hologram.

Jem and the Holograms Wraps this Week According to Backstage

The production listings on Backstage.com for Jem and the Holograms updated with this tidbit: "Shoots through May 16 in Los Angeles."

With a $5 Million dollar budget and the Blumhouse model of making low budget horror flicks, it makes sense that they would only be filming for a month. What this means for the characters that have not been cast yet - such as The Misfits - remains to be seen. Either they have been kept a very tight secret, their role in the movie is very limited or they are not in the film entirely.

Juliette Lewis in Jem & The Holograms?

The latest casting rumor is that Juliette Lewis (best known for the movies Cape Fear, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Natural Born Killers) has been cast in Jem & The Holograms in an unknown role. Lewis is also a singer and has had colored hair at various times (including bright blue).

It's possible she is the mysterious "Erica" character whose name was spotted on a dressing room trailer door. She could be playing a female version of Eric Raymond. Since she is a singer, it's possible that has something to do with her involved. Maybe she could be playing Jacqui Benton in a flashback. Could she even be playing Pizzazz?

Week 3 of Filming

Here at Cool Trash we are busy trying to get caught up from the third week of filming Jem and the Holograms and will be updating with several stories this weekend.

The week started at Lacy Street Studios - where a concert scene was being shot outside in a very industrial looking area. Early Thursday morning, an impromptu call for more extras was put out after midnight Pacific time.

Production moved to Los Angeles Center Studios later on Thursday where it appears that scenes are being filmed without the Holograms. Nathan Moore tweeted about filming through the night, so it appears Zipper is involved. LA Center Studios has a number of pre-existing locations that can be filmed at such as court rooms, police stations, hospitals, generic offices, laboratories, and so forth. It's a large studio complex with multi-story office buildings with production offices that are used in many tv shows and movies for exterior establishing shots. So this could be "Starlight Music" or where Eric Raymond works (if it's not Starlight).

We've heard that the Jem & the Holograms crew are set up near the corner of Beaudry and 6th next to a little park and a large office building.

Who is Erica?

A Jem fan spotted the dressing room trailer at Lacy Studios this weekend and posted some photos on Instagram. Each of the doors is labeled with the name of the character the actor/actress is playing and "director" presumably for Jon Chu.  From left to right, the trailer doors are labeled: Jerrica, Kimber, Shana, Aja, Rio, Erica and Director.

Our question is: Who Is Erica?

Big Late Night Shoot

The Jem cast and crew changed filming locations and Friday night shot at Lacy Street Studios a complex of old warehouses near downtown Los Angeles. The exterior of the buildings look like old rundown warehouses and/or factories and interiors are set-up to look like a variety of residential and commercial sets.

The location was given away by the fact that Sugarpill Cosmetics, who are located next door to Lacy Street Studios, tweeted about giving away free makeup to the Jem makeup crew and they also posted on Instagram picture of the exterior:

Britta Phillips (Jem's original singing voice) was on set to film a cameo appearance and there were many execs were in attendance including Scooter Braun, Jamie Kapili (from Blumhouse) and Hieu Ho (President of  Chu Studios).

Costume Designer Soyon An posted on Instagram a picture of a more brightly colored orange/red/pink-ish hair/wig, which possibly could be Kimber's if Stefanie Scott's hair color seen previously is Kimber's natural hair color.

Our speculation is that this possibly could have been a Jem & the Holograms performance that was being filmed.  Scooter Braun mentioned choreographer Nick Demoura in a tweet.  We have heard that there were dozens of extras on the set, so that would fit with an audience.

Meet Young Jerrica

Eight year old actress Isabella Rice has been cast as Young Jerrica and recently filmed scenes on the film. She has previously appeared in minor roles on Glee, True Blood and Two and a Half Men and has appeared in ads for Barbie.

Her agents Nicole Jolley and Milton Perea posted this picture of Isabella with Aubrey Peeples on Twitter:

And this picture of Isabella with Stefanie Scott on IMDb:

There appears to be a younger girl cropped out of that photo (how rude) that perhaps is young Kimber.