{"id":545466,"date":"2026-07-17T03:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T03:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:52:14","slug":"13-going-on-30-reboot-cast-adds-three-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545466\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201813 Going On 30\u2019 Reboot Cast Adds Three (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Taylor Ortega<\/a> (Big Mistakes), Tim Meadows<\/a> (Peacemaker) and Dan Bucatinsky<\/a> (The Comeback) have come aboard for undisclosed roles in Netflix<\/a>\u2018s 13 Going on 30<\/a> reboot.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey join the previously announced Emily Bader, Logan Lerman, Adeline Rudolph and Jessica Alba. No word yet on the sequel\u2019s plot or character details. Production kicked off in L.A. last month with the original film\u2019s star, Jennifer Garner, aboard as executive producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tA 2004 rom-com from Columbia Pictures,\u00a013 Going on 30\u00a0centers on a 13-year-old girl who magically wakes up as her 30-year-old self and must navigate adulthood while rediscovering who she really is. Garner played the grown-up version of the character, starring opposite Mark Ruffalo in the beloved film from Gary Winick. 13 Going on 30 grossed roughly $96 million in theaters and has endured for decades as a cultural touchstone, making a reboot inevitable. Already, Garner has exec produced a stage musical adaptation, which premiered at the Manchester Opera House last fall. Original screenwriters Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa penned the book for the stage adaptation, which features original songs by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.<\/p>\n

Brett Haley (Netflix\u2019s\u00a0People We Meet on Vacation) is directing from a script by Hannah Marks (Mark, Mary, & Some Other People) with revisions by Flora Greeson (The Princess Diaries 3). Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum are producing for RK Films, with Garner exec producing alongside Donna Roth and Susan Arnold, Scott Hemming for Revolution Studios, Alyssa Altman for RK Films, Marks, Gina Matthews and Ted Gidlow.<\/p>\n

\n\tRecently seen on CBS\u2019s\u00a0Ghosts\u00a0and Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Big Mistakes, Ortega is perhaps best known for a major role on Fox\u2019s\u00a0Welcome to Flatch. Her film credits include\u00a0Another Simple Favor\u00a0and the dark comedy\u00a0Jackpot!, a pair of projects directed by Paul Feig for Prime Video. She is repped by Gersh, Mosaic, and Granderson Des Rochers.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeadows is an SNL alum otherwise best known for roles in comedies like\u00a0Mean Girls\u00a0and\u00a0Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Most recently, he\u2019s been seen starring in CBS\u2019 workplace comedy\u00a0DMV, additionally recurring on HBO Max\u2019s\u00a0Peacemaker. Upcoming, he\u2019ll be seen in A24\u2019s\u00a0The Chaperones\u00a0starring Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson. He is repped by Reliant Talent and Brillstein.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnown for exec producing and starring alongside Lisa Kudrow in HBO\u2019s comedy\u00a0The Comeback, which recently resurfaced after a decade for a third and final season, Bucatinsky has also recently been seen in the premium cabler\u2019s Emmy and Golden Globe-winner\u00a0Hacks. He is repped by Innovative, The Rosenzweig Group, and Myman Greenspan Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Taylor Ortega (Big Mistakes), Tim Meadows (Peacemaker) and Dan Bucatinsky (The Comeback) have come aboard for undisclosed roles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[158185,176457,146,85,46,397,400,177798,247862],"class_list":["post-545466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-13-going-on-30","tag-dan-bucatinsky","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-taylor-ortega","tag-tim-meadows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545466","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=545466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}