{"id":159994,"date":"2025-09-16T03:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159994\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:56:10","slug":"vishka-asayesh-to-star-in-dark-comedy-loose-ends-from-michael-younesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159994\/","title":{"rendered":"Vishka Asayesh To Star In Dark Comedy ‘Loose Ends’ From Michael Younesi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Iranian American writer-director Michael Younesi<\/a> has wrapped production on Loose Ends<\/a>, an indie dark comedy produced by Zero Gravity Management (The Accountant 2, Ozark) and LB Entertainment (The Apprentice, May December).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film marks the Hollywood debut of acclaimed Iranian actress Vishka Asayesh<\/a>, who recently was convicted and sentenced in absentia for her political support of the \u201cWoman, Life, Freedom\u201d protests. The actress plays a key role alongside newcomer Amir Afshari, who stars as Jamsheed \u201cJerry\u201d Shahbazi, a down-and-out Persian billboard lawyer who, desperate for cash, joins an insurance scam that spirals out of control. Soon, he must escape a deadly triangle involving the feds, the Armenian mob and his own chaotic Persian family.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpecifics as to Asayesh\u2019s role weren\u2019t disclosed. The cast also includes hip-hop icon DJ Quik, actor-bodybuilder Mike O\u2019Hearn (Magazine Dreams) and Latin TikTok star Llanteros503. The pic is set and shot in Los Angeles, the city with the largest Iranian community outside of Iran.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow exiled and barred from returning to her home country, Asayesh has become a symbol of artistic resistance for her outspoken stance on human rights. Her most recent film, Ali Samadi Ahadi\u2019s drama Seven Days, premiered to acclaim at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, spotlighting the rising tide of Iranian cinema in exile. First rising to national prominence in the mid-1990s with her breakthrough television role in the historical drama Imam Ali, she\u2019s over the years built an extensive filmography with additional roles in Visitor of Rey, Ice Flower, No Men Allowed, and more.<\/p>\n

Younesi executive produced and directed Netflix\u2019s series\u00a0Project MC\u00b2\u00a0and directed episodes of the Apple TV+ show\u00a0Hello Jack! He went on to write and direct the feature\u00a0Adventure Force 5\u00a0and also has helmed award-winning campaigns for brands including Old Spice, Disneyland and Walmart. He is repped by Verve and Zero Gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Iranian American writer-director Michael Younesi has wrapped production on Loose Ends, an indie dark comedy produced by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,97381,97382,206,97383],"class_list":["post-159994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-loose-ends","tag-michael-younesi","tag-movies","tag-vishka-asayesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}