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for the movie“ Jane Mansfield’ s Car” brought actors like Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Bacon and Robert Duvall to High Falls.
And when Hollywood is not coming to Monroe County,
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Monroe County is going to Hollywood. Also in June 2012, two Monroe County men got to rub elbows with stars like Harrison Ford when the Jackie Robinson movie,“ 42,” was filming in Macon in June. |
Kaleb Joseph, 22, and Zack Walker, 24, both of Forsyth, were chosen to play small parts during filming of the movie, which tells the story of how Robinson integrated professional baseball in the |
1940s. Monroe County is perhaps best-known, though, as the setting for the 1991 classic southern movie,“ Fried Green Tomatoes”, which marked its 20th anniversary last year. |