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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Topher Grace Joins A24 Pic From Director Chris Rock
EXCLUSIVE: Topher Grace is set to join the ensemble cast of the untitled A24 pic that has Chris Rock directing and starring in. The film also features Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya and Anna Kendrick. Rock also penned the script. Currently in production in Los Angeles, the film follows Misty Green, a gifted actress with a derailed career until someone from her past offers her a chance at a comeback. Character details for Grace are under wraps. More from Deadline 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' Trailer: Rose Byrne Kicks It Into High Gear As A Mom On The Edge 'Eternity' Trailer: Elizabeth Olsen Must Choose One Of Two Husbands As Her Afterlife Companion In A24 Rom-Com Co-Starring Miles Teller & Callum Turner Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya & Anna Kendrick Join Chris Rock In His A24 Debut Feature Peter Rice, Rock and David Worthen Brooks are producing, with Nelson George, Shaum Sengupta and Miles Alva exec producing. Grace is coming off his scene stealing role as the villain in the Netflix drama The Waterfront, which also stars Maria Bello and Holt McCallany. He also recently joined the cast of the horror pic Buddy also starring Cristin Milioti. Grace is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, CAA and attorney David Matlof. Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More Men of Steel: Every Actor Who Has Played Superman - Photo Gallery 'Michael' Cast: Who's Who In The Michael Jackson Biopic
Boston Globe
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Conan O'Brien plays a therapist in first trailer for ‘If I Had Legs I'd Kick You'
'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' had its global premiere at Sundance in January, followed by its international premiere at Berlin Film Festival in February, where Byrne won the Earlier this year, O'Brien said in an interview on ' Advertisement O'Brien, known for his 'It's not something that I would have sought. I am not looking to be an actor, I don't want to do that to America,' O'Brien told Kimmel. 'Trust me, this is not on my bucket list, but I met with Mary and I think I tried to talk her out of it. She said 'No,' she was very persuasive, so I said 'I'll give it a shot.'' Advertisement See the full trailer for 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' below. Ryan Yau can be reached at
Hypebeast
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
A$AP Rocky 強勢回歸大銀幕！A24 超現實喜劇《If I Had Legs I'd Kick You》首支預告登場
A$AP Rocky 暌違多時重返大銀幕，加盟 A24 推出的超現實喜劇。於最新釋出的《If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You》預告中，這位饒舌歌手與喜劇前輩 Rose Byrne 及 Conan O'Brien 多次同框，場面混亂、一觸即發。 本片由導演 Mary Bronstein 掌鏡，於 Sundance Film Festival 首映時斬獲一致好評。官方故事大綱寫道：「當生活幾近崩毀，Linda 得同時面對孩子罹患的神祕疾病、行蹤成謎的丈夫、一宗失蹤案，以及與治療師日益緊繃的關係。」 在預告公開前，劇組始終守口如瓶。最新畫面證實 Rocky 並非走過場，而是飾演「James」，位居劇情核心。 Rocky 亦預計於今年現身另一部 A24 長片，由傳奇導演 Spike Lee 掌鏡的犯罪驚悚翻拍《Highest 2 Lowest》，改編自 Akira Kurosawa 1963 年的經典電影《High and Low》。在這部新黑色電影中，Rocky 將與 Denzel Washington、Ilfenesh Hadera、Jeffrey Wright 及 Ice Spice 同場飆戲。 《If I Had Legs I'd Kick You》將於 2025 年 10 月 10 日在全球戲院上映。
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch A$AP Rocky Show His Devious Side in ‘If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' Movie Trailer
A$AP Rocky's adding to his acting lore, as he's set to star alongside Rose Byrne in A24's If I Had Legs I'd Kick You movie. The Mary Bronstein-directed dramedy released a trailer on Wednesday (Aug. 6), which finds Byrne playing a mother, who works as a psychotherapist, in the midst of crashing out. Conan O'Brien, Christian Slater and Danielle Macdonald are among those filling out the cast. 'With her life literally crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist,' reads a logline for the film. More from Billboard Spike Lee Praises A$AP Rocky's Acting, Says Rapper Went 'Toe-to-Toe' With Denzel Washington in New Film Did A$AP Rocky Just Let Slip the Sex of His & Rihanna's Third Baby? A$AP Rocky Teases New Song at Cannes During 'Highest 2 Lowest' Premiere As for Rocky, he's in the role of a character named James, who appears to be a neighbor who might know a little too much and is looking for a partner-in-crime to get into some mischievous activities. 'Yo, crazy pants, I was gonna partake in surfing the web for some things that I'm into,' the rapper deviously says in the clip. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is slated to hit theaters on Oct. 10. The movie was the darling of Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered, and Rose Byrne won the Silver Bear for best lead performance at the Berlin Film Festival. Prior to the A24 flick's arrival, the Harlem rapper-actor is set to star in Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest alongside Denzel Washington, which will be released in theaters on Aug. 22 and will land on Apple TV+ on Sept. 5. Rocky has a pair of songs ('Trunks,' 'Both Eyes Closed') slated to appear on the Highest 2 Lowest soundtrack dropping on Aug. 15. Lee previously raved about Rocky's acting, saying he held his own with Denzel on set. 'Yeah, don't sleep on A$AP. In this film, Denzel and A$AP go toe-to-toe,' Spike teased on The Tonight Show. 'What's interesting is, even before I got involved with this film, I always thought that A$AP looked like he could be Denzel's son. There's a big resemblance. So when you see it on the screen, it adds an element of father and son.' Watch the If I Had Legs I'd Kick You trailer below. Best of Billboard Kelly Clarkson, Michael Buble, Pentatonix & Train Will Bring Their Holiday Hits to iHeart Christmas Concert Fox Plans NFT Debut With $20 'Masked Singer' Collectibles 14 Things That Changed (or Didn't) at Farm Aid 2021
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
All the rage: The shocking new Rose Byrne film that tackles the mother load
Rose Byrne is in every frame of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, the remarkable, funny, and slightly scandalous movie that opens the Melbourne International Film Festival tonight. The camera sits tight – really tight – on her flawless face, tracking every twitch, grimace, scowl and frown as Linda, a therapist and the mother of a very sick child, descends into a psychological hell from which she can see no escape. It's called motherhood. 'What I wanted to do was something I have never seen before,' says the movie's American writer-director, Mary Bronstein, who is in Australia as a guest of the festival. 'I wanted to make an expressive piece of work about what it's like to be a caretaker in a very serious, high-stakes situation, where you feel like the entire universe is against you.' For most of the film, Linda's husband is nothing more than an angry voice (Christian Slater's, to be precise) on the other end of the phone, offering unwanted advice about how to fix things. The child – heard but not seen – won't or can't eat, and demands almost constant care. Their home has become unlivable because a leak in the apartment above has caused the ceiling to collapse, so mother and child have moved into a motel room, whose tiny space is filled with the beeps and flashing lights of the machine that pumps life-sustaining nutrients into the child. Linda seeks relief in alcohol, drugs, and sly escapes from the nightmarish claustrophobia of her situation. There's nothing heroic or stoic about this long-suffering woman – whose tribulations may be real or may be at least partly manufactured in her mind – but she's absolutely anchored in truth. 'The tiny seed that started the entire movie is a real situation I lived through with my daughter – she's 15 now – when she was seven,' says Bronstein. 'She was very seriously ill.' Bronstein and her husband live in New York City, and the treatment their daughter needed was in San Diego, on the other side of the country. 'So my daughter and I lived together as sort of demented roommates in a small motel room for eight months, and I had a full existential crisis. I was so focused on the situation at hand, which was everything to do with her, that I felt like I was disappearing, literally.' The things that happen in the film, she adds, aren't all drawn from her actual experience, and she isn't interested in detailing what's factual and what's not. 'What is important to me to get across is that it's all emotionally true.' Bronstein, who started as an actor before making her directing debut 17 years ago with Yeast (in which she co-starred alongside Barbie writer-director Greta Gerwig), has a small role in this movie, as the doctor in charge of the sick child's care. And her view of Linda is not a particularly kind one. Doctor Spring represents, Bronstein concedes, the 'self-hatred' she felt at the time. 'But in a more general sense, it is a judgement of mothers who are not being perfect all the time, who are having their problems, who are struggling, who maybe are faced with something they can't handle and need help [with]. You know, there's a lot of helpers in the film, and there's a lot of listeners, or potential listeners, but Linda feels as if she's screaming into the wind and the void and nobody is hearing or helping.' There is a lot of very dark humour in the film, alongside a deep sense of frustration and confusion. Above all, it's about a side of motherhood that rarely gets addressed in cinema. Loading 'I want it to spark a conversation about female rage, and why that makes people so uncomfortable,' Bronstein says. 'It makes women uncomfortable too, not just men. It makes everybody uncomfortable, the idea of female rage, because it feels bottomless.' The love for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You has been almost bottomless too. Since its debut at Sundance in January, it has garnered rave reviews, and earned Rose Byrne the best actress prize at Berlin the following month. But there's a special burden that comes with being the opening-night film at MIFF, one of the biggest film festivals on the planet – namely, that it should spark chatter at the after-party without killing the vibe. There's every chance it will succeed on both scores. But exactly what sort of chatter are you hoping for, Mary Bronstein? 'I hope electric, that's the word I'm going to use,' she says. 'Curious, with people excited at seeing something they haven't seen before.' And, she adds, she hopes for 'a lot of car conversations on the way home. That's my goal.'
