Casting Agents Afraid to Touch Mrs. Cruise

Allie @ Gone Hollywood

Katie Holmes is taking it slow with another important matter: getting back to her acting career after her marriage to mega star Tom Cruise and the birth of daughter Suri.

Ms. Holmes has taken a long hiatus from the movie business, avoiding new roles since getting involved with Mr. Cruise nearly two years ago. Now, she wants to be back in the game. In recent weeks, representatives at the Hollywood talent firm Creative Artists Agency have been working hard to map out a new career plan for the temporarily out-of-work actress, her associates say.

There are signs that it won’t be easy, partly because studios may be gun-shy of her new status as a tabloid fixture, and partly because her expectations may be raised as the new Mrs. Cruise. She recently was unable to make a deal with Warner Bros. to land what appeared to be a good opportunity: a reprisal of her role as assistant district attorney Rachel Dawes in the sequel to 2005′s “Batman Begins,” scheduled for summer 2008 and titled “The Dark Knight.”

Resuming a movie career is sometimes difficult in Hollywood, where a break can turn into a permanent vacation from the fast-moving business if an actor isn’t careful. Stars of much bigger stature than Ms. Holmes, including Meg Ryan and Demi Moore, have found it tough to regain their momentum after taking time off.

Yet Ms. Holmes has an added problem: her relationship with Mr. Cruise has been a tabloid free-for-all from the moment it started, generating negative publicity that may make studios more reluctant to take a chance on her. Unlike, say, Russell Crowe , who garnered a ream of bad publicity from throwing a malfunctioning phone at a New York hotel employee, Ms. Holmes’s trouble stems simply from getting involved with a fellow actor who himself has generated controversy — certainly no crime. But the impact on her job prospects could be similar; Mr. Crowe’s career appears to have veered off track since his eruption.

Much has changed for Ms. Holmes since two summers ago, when she was known primarily as the pretty ingénue from “Dawson’s Creek” and films like “First Daughter” and “Go.” Since then she’s become a mother, married into great wealth and begun hobnobbing with figures like Yahoo’s chairman and chief executive, Terry Semel, and David and Victoria Beckham, the world-renowned soccer player and his wife. (Ms. Beckham — the former Spice Girl known as Posh — “styled” Ms. Holmes for a coming Harper’s Bazaar cover).

She’s also become inextricably linked to the 44-year-old Mr. Cruise, a Hollywood legend who has been criticized for his controversial Scientology faith and a pattern of erratic public behavior that is regarded in some quarters as a box-office liability. Mr. Cruise’s production contract was not renewed last August by Paramount, partly because of his antics, including ecstatically proclaiming his love for Ms. Holmes on Oprah Winfrey’s couch and inveighing against the use of antidepressants by Brooke Shields and others on the “Today” show.

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