{"id":609022,"date":"2026-05-28T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609022\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:41:09","slug":"beach-read-movie-andie-macdowell-and-kevin-bacon-join-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609022\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Beach Read’ Movie: Andie MacDowell And Kevin Bacon Join Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Andie MacDowell<\/a> and Kevin Bacon<\/a> have joined the cast of Beach Read<\/a>,\u00a020th Century Studios<\/a>\u2018 adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel from Emily Henry<\/a>. Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger currently star with production set to start next month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tPublished in 2020,\u00a0Beach Read\u00a0is a romantic comedy following January Andrews, a successful romance novelist who struggles with grief and writer\u2019s block after her father\u2019s death and the discovery of secrets he\u2019s long kept hidden. While spending the summer in his Michigan beach house to prepare it for sale, she unexpectedly reconnects with Gus Everett, an author who was once her rival in college. Both creatively stuck, they agree to a writing challenge over the summer, swapping literary genres while promising that there will be no romance between them. Of course, you know what they say about the best-laid plans.<\/p>\n

\n\tYulin Kuang, the co-writer of Netflix\u2019s\u00a0People We Meet on Vacation\u00a0\u2014 another\u00a0Henry adaptation<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is directing the feature take from her own script, with Neal H. Moritz producing via his Original Films. Karina Rahardja will exec produce. Sarah Shepard and Catherine Hughes are overseeing for 20th. The literary affairs team, led by Clare Reeth, spearheaded efforts to land rights to the book.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest known for his acclaimed performances in Footloose, A Few Good Men, Mystic River, and The Following the Golden Globe winner and Primetime Emmy nominee most recent credits include Leave the World Behind,\u00a0 MaXXXine and the upcoming Family Movie. Golden Globe winner and Primetime Emmy nominee, Bacon\u2019s most recent credits include\u00a0Leave the World Behind,\u00a0MaXXXine,\u00a0and\u00a0Family Movie.\u00a0Bacon is represented by MGMT Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tMacDowell is known for her acclaimed roles in\u00a0Sex, Lies, and Videotape,\u00a0Groundhog Day,\u00a0Green Card, and\u00a0Four Weddings and a Funeral. A multiple Golden Globe Award nominee, she recently received praise for her performance in the series \u201cMaid\u201d,\u00a0with other recent credits including\u00a0My Happy Ending,\u00a0Searchlight\u2019s\u00a0Ready or Not, and her smash hit Hallmark Channel series \u201cThe Way Home\u201d which is currently airing its fourth and final season. MacDowell is represented by the Gersh Agency and RMS Productions.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Which Emily Henry Books Are Becoming Movies? \u2018Happy Place,\u2019 \u2018Book Lovers,\u2019 Among Others\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Andie MacDowell and Kevin Bacon have joined the cast of Beach Read,\u00a020th Century Studios\u2018 adaptation of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[19588,207338,6491,207339,96,47328,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andie-macdowell","tag-beach-read","tag-celebrities","tag-emily-henry","tag-entertainment","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}