{"id":257768,"date":"2026-01-26T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/257768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:39:09","slug":"will-poulter-noah-centineo-film-gets-standing-ovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/257768\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Poulter & Noah Centineo Film Gets Standing Ovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPark City had another crowd-pleasing premiere with Adam Meeks\u2019 \u201cUnion County<\/a>,\u201d which earned a lengthy standing ovation at its Sunday screening at the Eccles Theater.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama, which stars Will Poulter<\/a> and Noah Centineo<\/a> as brothers who are in drug recovery together, was shot in a real-life drug court in Ohio, and many of their co-stars were non-actors who were working the program itself. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe biggest cheers came for Annette Deao, who works as a therapist helping people navigate addiction recovery in real life and has several emotional moments opposite Poulter.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the Q&A following the screening, Meeks described how he became interested in the project.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m from central Ohio, in the area where this film is set, but my immediate family and I left when I was 6,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until 2016 that I started spending a lot of time there as an adult. My grandmother was sick, and I came back to spend time there. And I think it was because I had been away for so long, but I was falling in love with Ohio and seeing the place differently and seeing people differently. Around the same time, my, extended family was telling me about the way that the opioid epidemic at that time was impacting friends and loved ones. It was intense, and my uncle actually introduced me to the drug court judge at the time, the previous judge, and he invited me to sit in on a meeting. I had been hearing about what I think most of us were hearing about, in terms of the bleakness and tragedy of the overdose statistics. I was immediately seeing people getting better and getting back on their feet, and I was also seeing the incredible work that Annette and her team and everybody were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to the screening, Meeks spoke to Variety on the red carpet about how Poulter got involved with the project.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe actually read the script through his agent and reached out to us,\u201d Meeks said. \u201cI got on a Zoom with him and fell in love immediately. We did the kind of coy thing at the end of a call where you\u2019re like, \u2018Alright, I\u2019ll talk to my people, and you talk to your people.\u2019 And then five minutes later, we had offered him the role, and he had accepted it. It was just a really organic, beautiful, mutual connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDeao also spoke to Variety on the carpet about how the opioid epidemic is evolving in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI believe the opioid epidemic is changing,\u201d Deao said. \u201cPart of that is education. People are understanding \u2014 even our medical professionals understand much better \u2014 you cannot keep prescribing that and expect people not to get addicted. We are seeing improvement. Also, medication-assisted treatment has been an amazing part of how people are recovering from substance use disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Park City had another crowd-pleasing premiere with Adam Meeks\u2019 \u201cUnion County,\u201d which earned a lengthy standing ovation at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,24640,48764,136308,136309],"class_list":{"0":"post-257768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-noah-centineo","13":"tag-sundance-film-festival","14":"tag-union-county","15":"tag-will-poulter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}