EXCLUSIVE: Jack Dylan Grazer (It franchise), Josh Segarra (Scream VI) and Billy Bryk (When You Finish Saving the World) are among the final additions to the cast of the comedy Friendship, from Fifth Season and BoulderLight Pictures. Their roles are under wraps.
As previously reported, Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, and Kate Mara lead the cast. Other new additions include Jason Veasey, Jon Glaser, Eric Rahill, Conner O’Malley, Carmen Christopher, Craig Frank, Omar Torres, Jacob Ming-Trent, Daniel London, Whitmer Thomas, and Raphael Sbarge.
The first feature from writer-director Andrew DeYoung, Friendship follows Craig Waterman (Robinson), who enjoys his life. He likes New Balance shoes, Subway sandwiches, and Marvel movies. He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Tami, and son, Steven. He’s happy to work at Universal Digital, a company that helps brands make their products more habit-forming. Craig sees no reason to change anything or make new friends… until weatherman Austin (Rudd) moves into the neighborhood. Mysterious yet friendly, macho but vulnerable, Austin transforms everything for Craig, but Craig’s obsessive and childlike nature threatens to ruin the friendship, and possibly everything else in his life.
In addition to financing the project, Fifth Season is producing alongside BoulderLight’s J. D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. DeYoung and Tracy Rosenblum are exec producing, with WME Independent, UTA, and Fifth Season co-repping domestic sales.
Best known for starring in Warner Bros’ Shazam! films, New Line’s It films based on the Stephen King novel, and Luca Guadagnino’s HBO series We Are Who We Are, Grazer has also been seen in films like Dreamin’ Wild and Beautiful Boy. Up next, he’ll be seen in Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe’s indie drama Downtown Owl, which premiered at Tribeca last year. He is represented by UTA, Tanguay Talent and Entertainment, and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman.
Next to be seen starring alongside Zoey Deutch, Ruby Cruz and Jonah Hauer-King in Chad Hartigan’s comedy The Threesome, Segara’s past film credits include Scream VI, Overboard, and Trainwreck. Previously, he’s also been seen in major roles on shows like The Other Two, Sirens, The Big Door Prize, The Moodys, Arrow, and Orange Is the New Black, among others. He is repped by CAA, ATA Management, and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman.
Most recently teaming with Finn Wolfhard to direct and star in the horror comedy Hell of a Summer, in the duo’s feature debut, Bryk has also appeared alongside Wolfhard in Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving the World for A24 and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Prior to that, he recurred on Syfy’s Wynonna Earp. Bryk is with Mosaic, OAZ, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Veasey is repped by Nicolosi & Co; Glaser by CAA and Joshua Lewin; Rahill by Rise Management; O’Malley by Entertainment 360, Rise Management, and Schreck, Rose, Dapello; Christopher by UTA, Rise Management, and Felker, Toczek, Suddleson; Frank by Innovative Artists and Industry Entertainment; Torres by Eris Talent Agency and Entertainment Lab; Ming-Trent by IAG and Station 3; London by Buchwald and JMason Entertainment; Thomas by WME, 3 Arts, and Ginsburg, Daniels, Kallis; and Sbarge by BRS/Gage and Main Title Entertainment.