{"id":43907,"date":"2025-08-04T23:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43907\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:03:13","slug":"ella-mccay-trailer-watches-emma-mackey-become-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43907\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ella McCay\u2019 Trailer Watches Emma Mackey Become Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t20th Century<\/a> Studios has released the first trailer for Ella McCay<\/a>, written and directed by Oscar and Emmy winner James L. Brooks<\/a> (As Good as It Gets, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, The Simpsons).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film opens exclusively in theaters December 12, 2025<\/a>. Emma Mackey<\/a> stars as the titular character, an\u00a0idealistic young woman who juggles her family and work life as a politician in a comedy about the people you love and how to survive them.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe clip opens with Julie Kavner\u2019s character prefacing the story as its narrator.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m here to provide facts about Ella McCay,\u201d Kavner, who voices Marge in The Simpsons, says. \u201cI\u2019ve worked for her ever since she finished law school, so I\u2019m not exactly neutral. I\u2019m nuts about her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCut to Mackey\u2019s Ella stepping out of an escort car to talk to her aunt Helen, played by Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a>, about \u201ca ridiculously serious problem.\u201d Her aunt warns that she is about to add to McCay\u2019s problems because Ella\u2019s estranged father (Woody Harrelson) has come back into her life.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEddie, you promised not to be yourself,\u201d Curtis\u2019 Helen says after Eddie asks how long it\u2019s been since he\u2019s seen his daughter. \u201cI\u2019m a different person now. I met an incredible woman. I\u2019ve never in my life felt this way about any other woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis string of sentences sends Ella out of the bar where they are talking in frustration as Harrelson\u2019s Eddie backtracks to say that the statement doesn\u2019t include her mother.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"L-R:<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tL-R: Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen and Emma Mackey as Ella McCay in 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u2018Ella McCay\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of 20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tAt 34 years old, Ella becomes governor, and she and her aunt share an emotional moment thinking about Ella\u2019s mother. Later in the clip, Helen encourages Ella to let a good scream out, but she fears she won\u2019t be able to stop. At the end, the pair trade primal screams.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast of\u00a0Ella McCay also includes<\/a> Jack Lowden<\/a> as Ella\u2019s husband, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Fearn, Rebecca Hall<\/a>, Julie Kavner, Becky Ann Baker, Joey Brooks and Albert Brooks. The film is produced by James L. Brooks, p.g.a., Richard Sakai, p.g.a., Julie Ansell, p.g.a., Jennifer Brooks.<\/p>\n

\n\tSee shots of the cast in the film below:<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Woody<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tWoody Harrelson as Eddie McCay in 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u2018Ella McCay\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of 20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tKumail Nanijani as Trooper Nash in 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u2018Ella McCay\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClaire Folger\/20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tL-R: Ayo Edibri as Susan and Spike Fearn as Casey in 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u2018Ella McCay\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClaire Folger\/20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"(L-R)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t(L-R) Julie Kavner as Estelle and Jack Lowden as Ryan in 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u2018Ella McCay\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of 20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Albert<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAlbert Brooks as Governor Bill in 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u2018Ella McCay\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClaire Folger\/20th Century Studios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios has released the first trailer for Ella McCay, written and directed by Oscar and Emmy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[38364,64,63,38365,38366,134,38367,17353,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-43907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-20th-century","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-ella-mccay","12":"tag-emma-mackey","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-james-l-brooks","15":"tag-jamie-lee-curtis","16":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}