The hair's a little longer this time but cause is just as important.Austin is taking part in the groundbreaking original movie “Five” for Lifetime Television.
"Five" is the "anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives."
"Five" shows the shared experience each short film’s title character endures from the moment of diagnosis, weaving their stories together with both drama and humor "to focus on the effect breast cancer and its different stages of diagnosis have on relationships and the way women perceive themselves" while they search for strength, comfort, medical breakthroughs and for a cure.Austin is a part of an all-star ensemble cast that includes Patricia Clarkson, Rosario Dawson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Holloway, Taylor Kinney, Jenifer Lewis, Jennifer Morrison, Kathy Najimy, Bob Newhart, Annie Potts, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tony Shalhoub, Jeffrey Tambor and Jeanne Tripplehorn.
Austin plays one of the children of Annie Potts who is diagnosed with breast cancer in 1969. The story will show how different it was to be diagnosed then, both medically and socially and the effect it had on not only Annie's character but her family.
Each short film is directed by a different director, which are Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, Patty Jenkins and Penelope Spheeris.
The head of Lifetime, Nancy Dubuc said “This may be the most important film we’ve ever done."Intense, powerful, inspiring, it is being called a can't miss.
But don't think it is all serious, "Five" looks for the humor as well.
Executive producer Marta Kauffman (Friends) talked about what happened with someone is given such as a diagnosis of breast cancer. "When we're in the most extreme circumstances, we tend to do one of two things: We either completely freak out, or go to humor. And when you raise the stakes enough, the results can be funny. It can be funny when a woman who's been diagnosed with breast cancer still has to deal with her mother."
"We were always given the freedom to make it as funny as we wanted to."
Kaufman added, "The idea was to do something that uses breast cancer as a backdrop, it's not about breast cancer; we've already seen that."
FIVE premieres Oct 10th on Lifetime.