{"id":162373,"date":"2025-09-22T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162373\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:31:09","slug":"ed-oneill-danielle-brooks-john-higgins-join-cameron-diaz-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162373\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed O&#8217;Neill, Danielle Brooks, John Higgins Join Cameron Diaz Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVeteran television actor Ed O\u2019Neill, Peacemaker\u2019s Danielle Brooks, and John Higgins, part of the Please Don\u2019t Destroy comedy group, have joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cameron-diaz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cameron-diaz_1\" data-tag=\"cameron-diaz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Diaz<\/a> in Bad Day, an action comedy Jake Szymanski is directing for Netflix.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Written by Laura Solon, the original script centers on a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The project has been described as a comedic version of\u00a0Falling Down, the 1993 drama directed by Joel Schumacher that starred Michael Douglas as a man who hits his breaking point while trying to get to his daughter\u2019s birthday.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>O\u2019Neill is playing the mom\u2019s curmudgeonly father-in-law who seems intent on making everyone\u2019s life miserable. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Brooks is a grumpy NYPD detective trying to track down the mom, while Higgins is Brooks\u2019 cop partner.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Beau Bauman, who produced\u00a0Back in Action, is producing with his Good One Productions. Solon is executive producing along with Mark Moran.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A massive name in the television world thanks to shows such as Modern Family, O\u2019Neill portrayed Donald Sterling, the former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, in FX 2024 dramatic mini-series Clipped. He recently wrapped shooting Hulu\u2018s All\u2019s Fair, Ryan Murphy\u2019s new all-star legal series in which he will be playing Glenn Close\u2019s husband, a former powerful Hollywood studio head. The show debuts in November.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>On Peacemaker, the DC Studios show whose second season is currently mid-stream on HBO Max, Brooks plays Leota Adebayo, the daughter of the scheming Amanda Waller. She also appeared in A Minecraft Movie and earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as Olivia in Warners\u2019 recent adaptation of The Color Purple.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>As a member of Please Don\u2019t Destroy, Higgins spent the last several years writing and producing digital shorts for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live_1\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>. He made headlines earlier in September when it was announced that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/snl-please-dont-destroy-sketches-ending-1236359243\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not be returning<\/a> for the show\u2019s 51st season and the group would not be producing any more shorts for the show. Additionally, he appeared in the Tom Hanks movie A Man Called Otto. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>O\u2019Neill is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Brooks is repped by CAA and Door24 while Higgins is repped by WME and Mosaic<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran television actor Ed O\u2019Neill, Peacemaker\u2019s Danielle Brooks, and John Higgins, part of the Please Don\u2019t Destroy comedy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,84246,48,75,337,28371],"class_list":{"0":"post-162373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-cameron-diaz","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-saturday-night-live"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}