{"id":239340,"date":"2025-10-20T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239340\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:00:08","slug":"better-life-movie-adds-14-to-cast-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239340\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Better Life&#8217; Movie Adds 14 To Cast (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Jessica Liu has added six for major roles in her debut feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/better-life\/\" id=\"auto-tag_better-life\" data-tag=\"better-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Better Life<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/valerie-loo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_valerie-loo\" data-tag=\"valerie-loo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valerie Loo<\/a> (American Horror Stories), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jim-lau\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jim-lau\" data-tag=\"jim-lau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Lau<\/a> (Horizon: An American Saga), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fivel-stewart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fivel-stewart\" data-tag=\"fivel-stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fivel Stewart<\/a> (Atypical), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kelly-mccormack\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kelly-mccormack\" data-tag=\"kelly-mccormack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly McCormack<\/a> (Sorry, Baby), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/christine-ko\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christine-ko\" data-tag=\"christine-ko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Ko<\/a> (Rolling Loud), and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tim-chiou\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tim-chiou\" data-tag=\"tim-chiou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Chiou<\/a> (The Company You Keep).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduction has wrapped on the film, which we <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/randall-park-joel-kim-booster-more-to-star-better-life-1236484705\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke news of<\/a> in August. As previously announced, the cast also features Randall Park, Ming-Na Wen, Joel Kim Booster, Margaret Cho, Anirudh Pisharody, and Yao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on Liu\u2019s proof-of-concept short of the same name, Better Life is a dark comedy whose logline is as follows: When a groundbreaking medical procedure promises to turn slackers into overachievers, an aging father sees it as his last chance to achieve the American Dream\u2026through his unemployed adult daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLiu based the film on experiences with her immigrant father and adapted it as a feature under the mentorship of Park, with whom she connected through the Alliance of Women Directors. Annie Huang produced alongside Samantha Gao (Smoking Tigers), who also serves as line producer, with production taking place in L.A. under the California Film &amp; Television Tax Credit Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAdditional cast includes Sophia Xu (Beef), Rodney J. Hobbs (First Man), Mel Mehrabian, Cassandra Blair, Chris Cortez, Lacey Claire Rogers, Homie Doroodian, and Nick Rutherford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLoo is represented by Brave Artists Management and Joseph Le Talent Agency; Lau by Raphael Berko and Media Artists Group; Stewart by Paradigm; McCormack by UTA, Noble, Caplan, Abrams in Toronto and Link Entertainment; Ko by WME, Rise Management, and Hansen, Jacobson; and Chiou by Zero Gravity Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Jessica Liu has added six for major roles in her debut feature, Better Life: Valerie Loo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[54958,132162,88,132163,132164,132165,206,132166,132167],"class_list":{"0":"post-239340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-better-life","9":"tag-christine-ko","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fivel-stewart","12":"tag-jim-lau","13":"tag-kelly-mccormack","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-tim-chiou","16":"tag-valerie-loo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239340","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=239340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}