{"id":925685,"date":"2026-10-08T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925685\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:10:10","slug":"ike-barinholtz-joins-jennifer-aniston-in-comedy-naughty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925685\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike Barinholtz Joins Jennifer Aniston In Comedy ‘Naughty’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Ike Barinholtz<\/a> is the latest actor to join the growing ensemble of the upcoming Universal comedy Naughty<\/a>, starring Jennifer Aniston<\/a>. Peter Dinklage, Regina Hall<\/a> and Chase Sui Wonders<\/a> are also on board, with Olivia Wilde directing. Jimmy Warden penned the script for the project that originated from his spec script.<\/p>\n

\n\tNaughty follows Mallory (Aniston), whose only hope of securing custody of her son from her gaslighting trash-bag ex is to find Santa Claus (Dinklage) and convince him to testify in her divorce hearing. While unconfirmed, sources say Barinholtz plays the ex-husband.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLuckyChap will produce, as will Wilde and Warden. EVP Production Development Sara Scott and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project for the studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project marks a reunion for Barinholtz and Wonders, who co-star opposite each other and Seth Rogen on Apple\u2019s The Studio. Additionally, Barinholtz co-wrote and executive produces Netflix\u2019s Running Point, a comedy series he created with Mindy Kaling and David Stassen, and which stars Kate Hudson. Next, Barinholtz portrays Elon Musk in Neon\u2019s sci-fi satire Artificial, directed by Luca Guadagnino.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Artificial\u2019 Review: Andrew Garfield Is Chilling As Sam Altman In Luca Guadagnino\u2019s OpenAI Origin Story That Should Make You Very Afraid \u2013 New York Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tBarinholtz is repped by represented by UTA, Artists First, and Morris Yorn Barnes Levine Krintzman Rubenstein Kohner & Gellman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Ike Barinholtz is the latest actor to join the growing ensemble of the upcoming Universal comedy Naughty,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,15905,8961,337,140108],"class_list":["post-925685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-ike-barinholtz","tag-jennifer-aniston","tag-movies","tag-naughty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925685","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=925685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}