{"id":487910,"date":"2026-06-11T17:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:43:13","slug":"love-story-star-paul-anthony-kelly-joins-housemaids-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487910\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Love Story’ Star Paul Anthony Kelly Joins ‘Housemaid’s Secret’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPaul Anthony Kelly<\/a>, best known for starring as John F. Kennedy Jr. on the mini-series \u201cLove Story,\u201d has joined the cast of \u201cThe Housemaid\u2019s Secret.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019ll join the previously announced ensemble of Sydney Sweeney, Kristen Dunst and Michele Morrone. \u201cThe Housemaid\u2019s Secret\u201d is the follow-up to 2025\u2019s breakout hit \u201cThe Housemaid.\u201d Based on Freida McFadden\u2019s bestselling novel, the sequel picks up as Sweeney\u2019s Millie \u2014 who was hired in the initial story as the live-in maid for a wealthy family with a dark secret \u2014 taking a job \u201ckeeping house for a woman she\u2019s never allowed to see \u2014 only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d became a commercial smash \u2014 earning $400 million globally against a $35 million budget \u2014 Lionsgate hopes to turn \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d into a major film franchise. The studio plans to adapt more of McFadden\u2019s work \u2014 there\u2019s a third novel, \u201cThe Housemaid Is Watching\u201d \u2014 in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Housemaid\u2019s Secret\u201d will begin production later this year and is set to open in theaters on Dec. 17, 2027. Paul Feig is back to direct alongside screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine, who adapted the first book. Feig is also producing with Todd Lieberman of Hidden Pictures, Laura Fischer of Pretty Dangerous and Sweeney through Fifty-Fifty Films. Chelsea Kujawa and Maria Ascanio are overseeing the film for Lionsgate.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Housemaid\u2019s Secret\u201d will mark Kelly\u2019s film debut. Following \u201cLove Story,\u201d he\u2019s set to appear in the next season of \u201cAmerican Horror Story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Anthony Kelly, best known for starring as John F. Kennedy Jr. on the mini-series \u201cLove Story,\u201d has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,164460,225545],"class_list":["post-487910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-paul-anthony-kelly","tag-the-housemaids-secret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487910","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=487910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}