{"id":621949,"date":"2026-09-12T00:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621949\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:44:11","slug":"francois-arnaud-boards-mike-birbiglias-old-friends-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621949\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud Boards Mike Birbiglia&#8217;s &#8216;Old Friends New Friends&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFran\u00e7ois Arnaud is joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mike-birbiglia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mike-birbiglia_1\" data-tag=\"mike-birbiglia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Birbiglia<\/a>\u2018s upcoming focus features comedy Old Friends New Friends, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Heated Rivalry actor boards the summer camp-set film written and directed by Birbiglia. He joins a previously announced cast of Kathryn Newton (Avengers: Doomsday, Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come), Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea, Lady Bird), Patrick Schwarzenegger (Beach Read, The White Lotus), Geraldine Viswanathan (Thunderbolts, Drive-Away Dolls) and Dylan Gelula (Dream Scenario, Smile 2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOld Friends New Friends logline reads, \u201cWhen a tight-knit group of college friends travels to a summer camp for their old friend\u2019s wedding, they discover he\u2019s built a new life \u2014 with new friends \u2014 forcing them to confront what they\u2019ve lost, who they\u2019ve become and whether growing up means growing apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tArnaud\u2019s had a busy year since debuting his role of Scott Hunter in Heated Rivalry in late 2025, where he played the elder statesman figure of the fictional hockey universe. He\u2019s set to appear in the Hulu limited series Count My Lies and the dark dramedy Godstar with Olivia Taylor Dudley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tArnaud\u2019s set to make his Broadway debut next Spring in a revival of Richard Greenberg\u2019s Three Days of Rain, starring alongside David Corenswet and Yvonne Strahovski. The actor\u2019s also set to return for the hockey romance series\u2019 second season, which is filming this summer in Toronto. His character of Scott returns as a supporting player in the new season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBirbiglia\u2019s set to produce alongside Jacob Jaffke and Joe Hartwick for Oddball Entertainment. Arnaud is represented by Independent Artist Group, Impression Entertainment and Brecheen Feldman Breimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud is joining Mike Birbiglia\u2018s upcoming focus features comedy Old Friends New Friends, The Hollywood Reporter has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,155078,61,60,255888],"class_list":["post-621949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-francois-arnaud","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mike-birbiglia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}