{"id":422430,"date":"2026-05-11T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/422430\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:24:07","slug":"tom-burke-joins-gracie-abrams-in-halina-reijns-please-for-a24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/422430\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Burke Joins Gracie Abrams in Halina Reijn’s ‘Please’ for A24"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTom Burke<\/a> has joined the cast of \u201cPlease,\u201d the next feature from \u201cBabygirl\u201d writer\/director Halina Reijn<\/a> and A24<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe British star of \u201cFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga\u201d and \u201cThe Souvenir\u201d joins Gracie Abrams<\/a> in the feature, with the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter set to make her acting debut. <\/p>\n

\n\tPlot details are being kept under wraps for now, but Reijn will write and direct \u201cPlease.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDavid Hinojosa will produce, re-teaming with Reijn for the third time. Reijn will produce through her MAN UP Film banner, with A24 also producing and financing. Zach Nutman will executive produce.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlease\u201d also mark Reijn\u2019s third film with A24, following her satirical slasher \u201cBodies Bodies Bodies\u201d (2022) and her erotic thriller \u201cBabygirl\u201d (2024), which became one of the studio\u2019s biggest global successes and earned $64 million worldwide. A24 additionally acquired her debut feature, 2019\u2019s \u201cInstinct.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlease\u201d adds to a growing list of major credits for Burke. On the film front, last year he appeared in Steve Soderbergh\u2019s espionage thriller \u201cBlack Bag\u201d and the Cold War era thriller \u201cWinter of the Crow\u201d alongside Lesley Manville. He was recently announced as joining the cast of Alex Garland\u2019s \u201cElden Ring\u201d video game adaptation, also with A24. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn the TV side, he continues to lead the BBC detective series \u201cStrike\u201d and can currently be seen in Netflix series \u201cLegends\u201d about a real-life undercover mission to infilitrate British drug gangs. Upcoming TV work includes a recurring role in Amazon Prime Video\u2019s sci-fi sequel series \u201cBlade Runner 2099.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBurke is represented by WME, 360, B-Side, and Public Eye Comms. Reijn is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Abrams is repped by CAA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Burke has joined the cast of \u201cPlease,\u201d the next feature from \u201cBabygirl\u201d writer\/director Halina Reijn and A24.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[20473,430,156,19849,138497,111,139,69,159636],"class_list":["post-422430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-a24","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-gracie-abrams","tag-halina-reijn","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tom-burke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}