{"id":167982,"date":"2025-09-19T16:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167982\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:50:07","slug":"jessica-chastain-octavia-spencer-reteam-for-holiday-comedy-deck-the-yalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167982\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Chastain &#038; Octavia Spencer Reteam For Holiday Comedy &#8216;Deck the Y&#8217;Alls&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOscar winners\u00a0Octavia\u00a0Spencer\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jessica-chastain\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jessica-chastain\" data-tag=\"jessica-chastain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Chastain<\/a> are coming back together after starring in 2011\u2019s The Help with the holiday comedy Deck the Y\u2019Alls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe duo will star alongside Wanda Sykes (Bad Moms)\u00a0from a script by Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip, Girls Trip 2)\u00a0and Stefanie Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeck the Y\u2019alls\u00a0follows Rachel Stein (Chastain), a savvy New York baker who can roll with anything,until she falls for Beau, a younger Southern gentleman, and heads to Charleston to spend Christmas with his family. But over-protective matriarch Gladys Gibbes (Spencer) is a true steel magnolia whose massive celebrity chef persona will take all of Rachel\u2019s bless-her-heart best to survive. The pic, which is set in Charleston, SC, will lens next year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPic is produced by Sandbox Studios, as well as\u00a0Spencer\u2019s ORIT Entertainment, Chastain\u2019s Freckle Films, and Sony Music Vision, and is in active discussions with distribution partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpencer won a Best Supporting Actress for The Help, while Chastain won a Best Actress Oscar for Searchlight\u2019s The Eyes of Tammie Faye. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOliver is a screenwriter and producer behind the 2017 hit Girls Trip, which made her the first Black woman to write a movie that grossed over $100 million at the box office. She then went on to write the comedy series Harlem, The First Wives Club, and is currently working on\u00a0Girls Trip 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpencer, Chastain, Sykes, and Oliver are represented by CAA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSandbox Studios and Jessica Chastain are currently working together on the Netflix mystery thriller\u00a0Heartland\u00a0starring Chastain, country singer Carter Faith, and John Hawkes, which was announced last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar winners\u00a0Octavia\u00a0Spencer\u00a0and Jessica Chastain are coming back together after starring in 2011\u2019s The Help with the holiday comedy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[101078,88,4597,206,15048],"class_list":["post-167982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-deck-the-yalls","tag-entertainment","tag-jessica-chastain","tag-movies","tag-octavia-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167982","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=167982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}