Hacks<\/a> co-creator Jen Statsky, the film is set to start production next month. Stone and Pine will star as the leading couple with Padilla playing Stone\u2019s younger sister. It\u2019s scheduled to premiere in May next year.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, here\u2019s everything you need to know about Ashley Padilla.<\/p>\n
How did Ashley Padilla get into comedy?![\"Ashley](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/81828ee4-a91d-4050-b8b7-5c94437755f6_bb895599.jpg\" "\\"Ashley")
Ashley Padilla struggled in school, but she enjoyed making people laugh. Photo: @ash.padilla\/Instagram<\/p>\n
Padilla grew up across Oakland and Livermore, California, where she and her siblings were raised by a single mum who worked as a software company producer.<\/p>\n
The second eldest of her siblings, Padilla enjoyed making people laugh and described herself as a class clown during her high school days in an interview with Vulture.<\/p>\n
However, Padilla struggled with academics, failing classes and lacking an interest in school. \u201cI was absolutely blind to my own self-worth, and I relied on exterior validation, which I was not getting. No one was like, \u2018You have an A in this,\u2019\u201d she told the magazine. \u201cI felt just horrible about myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was around this time that Padilla\u2019s mother bought DVDs of the American version of beloved mockumentary sitcom, The Office, and Padilla discovered Steve Carell, Will Ferrell<\/a> and later fellow SNL star Kristen Wiig, who went on to influence her comedy style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live breakout star Ashley Padilla is set to appear in Universal Pictures\u2019 upcoming romcom The Catch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50390,4670,134649,68591,226879,49336,57690,146,28399,226878,16756,85,46,217006,29705,172226,1900,178637],"class_list":["post-491661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ashley-padilla","tag-california","tag-chris-pine","tag-curb-your-enthusiasm","tag-dave-mccary","tag-diane-keaton","tag-emma-stone","tag-entertainment","tag-gold-derby","tag-groundlings","tag-hacks","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jen-statsky","tag-jon-hamm","tag-livermore","tag-los-angeles","tag-netflix-is-a-joke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491661","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=491661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Ashley](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8e1dfc51-67dd-4150-8681-7d4620835084_d7491f3d.jpg\" "\\"Ashley")
Ashley Padilla is expanding her repertoire to include romance films too. Photo: @ash.padilla\/InstagramDirected by Stone\u2019s husband, Dave McCary<\/a>, and co-written by Hacks<\/a> co-creator Jen Statsky, the film is set to start production next month. Stone and Pine will star as the leading couple with Padilla playing Stone\u2019s younger sister. It\u2019s scheduled to premiere in May next year.<\/p>\n