{"id":818133,"date":"2026-10-30T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818133\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:58:08","slug":"widows-bay-star-kate-oflynn-joins-naughty-comedy-from-olivia-wilde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818133\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Widow’s Bay’ Star Kate O’Flynn Joins ‘Naughty’ Comedy From Olivia Wilde"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Kate O\u2019Flynn, the Emmy-winning Widow\u2019s Bay breakout, is among three new additions to Universal\u2019s new holiday comedy, Naughty<\/a>, starring Jennifer Aniston and Peter Dinklage. BAFTA winner Jamie Demetriou<\/a> (The Moment) and Dexter Sol Ansell<\/a> (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) are also set.<\/p>\n

\n\tCharacter details for the trio are being kept under wraps.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Olivia Wilde as her follow-up to the lauded A24 drama The Invite, Naughty follows Mallory (Aniston), whose only hope of securing custody of her son from her gaslighting trash-bag ex is to find Santa Claus (Dinklage) and convince him to testify in her divorce hearing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, written by Cocaine Bear\u2018s Jimmy Warden, releases in theaters on November 5, 2027. The Studio\u2018s Chase Sui Wonders and Ike Barinholtz also star, along with Regina Hall, Samara Weaving, Kate Berlant and John Early.<\/p>\n

\n\tLuckyChap is producing alongside Wilde and Warden, with Executive Vice President of Production Development Sara Scott and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell overseeing the project for Universal.<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Flynn won her first Emmy this fall for her memorable supporting turn as Patricia, the hardworking, socially awkward assistant to Matthew Rhys\u2019 cursed-island mayor, in Apple TV\u2019s horror comedy Widow\u2019s Bay. Created by Katie Dippold, the show was the most-nominated this year among freshman series, set a record for the most Emmys won by a comedy series in a single season with 14, including Outstanding Comedy Series, and has been renewed for a second season. Upcoming, O\u2019Flynn will be seen in Tender Loving Care, marking her fourth collaboration with Mike Leigh and her first time at the center of one of his films, which premiered at Telluride and releases in the U.S. via Bleecker Street on December 4. She also stars opposite Cate Blanchett and Spike Fearn in Sweetsick, an upcoming Searchlight Pictures drama from Alice Birch. She is repped by Conway van Gelder Grant and Entertainment 360.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn English comedian, actor and screenwriter, Demetriou is best known for creating, co-writing and starring in Stath Lets Flats for Channel 4\/HBO Max. He recently appeared in Charli xcx\u2019s A24 film The Moment and hosted Saturday Night Live UK just last month. Upcoming, he\u2019ll be seen in Netflix\u2019s Pride and Prejudice miniseries written by Dolly Alderton, Only Murders in the Building Season 6 and FX\u2019s video game anthology series Far Cry from Noah Hawley and Rob Mac. He is repped by United Agents and CAA.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnsell is a 12-year-old actor best known for starring as Prince Aegon \u201cEgg\u201d Targaryen in HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. He previously played Young Coriolanus in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and also appeared in Robert Zemeckis\u2019 Here starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. He is repped by WME and Independent Talent Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Kate O\u2019Flynn, the Emmy-winning Widow\u2019s Bay breakout, is among three new additions to Universal\u2019s new holiday comedy,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,268471,96,147956,227538,117500,56,54,55,18202],"class_list":["post-818133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dexter-sol-ansell","tag-entertainment","tag-jamie-demetriou","tag-kate-oflynn","tag-naughty","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-universal-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818133","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=818133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}