Hollywood has come to Chickamauga, and fanatic fans, onlookers and businesses are getting a taste of show business.

Cori Burnette, 25, and Evi Galloway, 21, both of Chickamauga, waited anxiously Thursday outside the set of the Hollywood feature film “Water for Elephants,” starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.

A house on West Cove Road in Kensington, just south of Chickamauga, will be used in the movie set for release in 2011.

“Water for Elephants” will star Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen in the “Twilight” series, and Witherspoon. The movie, based on a novel by the same name, is set during the Great Depression. Pattinson plays a poor, newly orphaned veterinary school student who joins a traveling circus. Witherspoon plays one of the circus performers.

Crews and the two stars are expected to be on the scene today for filming.

Pattinson and Witherspoon have yet to be called to the scene, but this doesn’t stop the actors’ fans from getting a look at movie magic in the process.

Mountain Cove Farms Store proprietor Steve Caheely has been hard at work keeping the film crew fed and reported an increase in business caused by the filming in Chickamauga. Caheely has been feeding the crew for the past three weeks.

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