Rewarding, cathartic, nerve-wracking. These were just a few of the emotions that actress Sicily Cameron felt when seeing the audience respond to her movie, “Run Nixon,” for the first time. “It’s been a long time coming,” said the Solano County native, reflecting on the journey to her breakout role on screen.
Sunday night’s local premiere at Suisun’s Marina Lounge, organized by Kim Pruitt of KP Entertainment Connections, was the culmination of a seven-year film project that Cameron first joined in 2018. The film’s journey to the screen almost proved as intense as the plot. Cast as one of the lead characters, Cameron plays a desperate mother named Stacy who resorts to robbing a strip club in order to pay for her son’s (Nixon) heart surgery.
A few years later, the gangster whose money she stole kidnaps Nixon as a ploy to reclaim what was stolen. The movie, now available at AMC theaters and on all streaming platforms, earned high praise during the film screening. “A lot of people came up and said, ‘Congratulations, you did such a great job.
’” said Cameron. “I’m actually really happy with the reaction we got.” But there were times during production Cameron couldn’t even visualize this kind of response.
When the pandemic put an indefinite pause on filming, the cast went on hiatus and didn’t regroup until the end of 2020. At that point, director SkyDirects decided to scrap all prior footage and start fresh. The gap had threatened the film’s cont.
