EXCLUSIVE: John Magaro (Past Lives) and Jeannie Berlin (You Hurt My Feelings) have been tapped for supporting roles in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein film, The Bride!, starring Christian Bale.
No word on the roles they’ll be playing. As previously announced, the Warner Bros film also stars Jessie Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Penelope Cruz and Julianne Hough.
Marking Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to the Academy Award-nominated Netflix drama The Lost Daughter, The Bride! watches as a lonely Frankenstein travel to 1930s Chicago to seek the aide of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.
Gyllenhaal is directing from her own script and producing alongside Emma Tillinger Koskoff (Joker, The Irishman), Talia Kleinhendler (The Lost Daughter) and Osnat Handelsman-Keren (The Lost Daughter). Pic’s exec producer is Carla Raij (Maestro, The Fablemans). It’s slated for release in IMAX on October 3, 2025.
Most recently, Magaro was seen starring opposite Greta Lee in Celine Song’s directorial debut Past Lives, the A24 romantic drama which this year was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Previously, the actor has also been seen in films like The Many Saints of Newark, Sylvie’s Love, First Cow and The Big Short, among many others. Next, he’ll be seen starring opposite Steve Zahn in the indie thriller Laroy, Texas, which he also produced.
In recent years, Berlin has been seen in Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings and Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, also recurring on series like Succession and Hunters, and starring in HBO’s The Night Of.
Magaro is repped by UTA, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, and Felker Toczek Suddleson; Berlin by CAA and Mills Kaplan Entertainment.