"Joseph Cross has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's World War II epic ""Flags of Our Fathers,"" which is shooting in Iceland.

Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach and Jesse Bradford star in the movie, which centers on the key Pacific Battle of Iwo Jima in winter 1945, and produced one of the war's most enduring images: a photograph of U.S. servicemen raising a U.S. flag.

Cross plays countryboy Franklin Sousley, one of the flag raisers. His other credits include ""Strangers With Candy"" and ""Jack Frost."""