{"id":332423,"date":"2025-12-05T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332423\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:33:07","slug":"michael-ceras-love-is-not-the-answer-casts-lucas-hedges-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332423\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cera&#8217;s &#8216;Love Is Not The Answer&#8217; Casts Lucas Hedges (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/love-is-not-the-answer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_love-is-not-the-answer\" data-tag=\"love-is-not-the-answer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Love Is Not the Answer<\/a>, the feature directorial debut of Juno and Superbad star Michael Cera, has added <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lucas-hedges\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lucas-hedges\" data-tag=\"lucas-hedges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Hedges<\/a> (Sorry, Baby), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/julia-best-warner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julia-best-warner\" data-tag=\"julia-best-warner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Best Warner<\/a> (Ratched) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shirley-henderson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shirley-henderson\" data-tag=\"shirley-henderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley Henderson<\/a> (Harry Potter) to its leading cast as production continues, Deadline has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCharacter details are under wraps. As announced when the film was introduced for sales at the Cannes Market, the film\u2019s leads are Pamela Anderson, Steve Coogan, and Jamie Dornan. Fred Hechinger was also announced as part of the cast in May, though he has since departed due to a scheduling conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduced by 2AM and Brookstreet Pictures, Love Is Not the Answer is billed as a precise yet unpredictable, absurdist comedy that moves between hilarity and heartbreak as it explores modern loneliness and the search for connection. Further details remain under wraps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMiles Cameron, Joseph Longo, Hannah Heller, Alyssa Bresnahan, and Maryann Urbano round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCera also penned the script. Producers on the project include Julia Oh, David Hinojosa, Christine D\u2019Souza Gelb, and Brookstreet Pictures\u2019 Nick Gordon and Carter Stanton, alongside Cera, Peter Niehoff, and Jomon Thomas for Mirador Pictures. Brookstreet also counts Trevor Matthews among the exec producers, alongside Natalya Pavchinskaya of Mirador Pictures, Brandon Thomas Lee and Jake Cloobeck of Evania, Betsy Niehoff, and Brendan McHugh. IPR and TPC are providing additional finance. MK2 Films is handling international sales while D\u2019Souza Gelb and CAA Media Finance co-rep domestic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOscar-nominated for his starring role in Manchester by the Sea, Hedges has most recently been seen in films including Sorry, Baby, Shirley, Let Them All Talk, and French Exit. He is repped by Untitled Entertainment and Brecheen Feldman Breimer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPreviously seen in Netflix\u2019s Ratched, Warner is repped by Cinterra Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA BAFTA nominee who played Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films, Henderson has also been seen in multiple installments of the Bridget Jones franchise \u2014 including the most recent installment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy \u2014 as well as Sofia Coppola\u2019s Marie Antoinette, Bong Joon Ho\u2019s Okja, Netflix\u2019s Dept. Q and more, with voice roles in the likes of The Mandalorian and Star Wars: Episode IX \u2013 The Rise of Skywalker. She is repped by B-Side Management and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Love Is Not the Answer, the feature directorial debut of Juno and Superbad star Michael Cera, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,168235,168236,168237,206,97616],"class_list":{"0":"post-332423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-julia-best-warner","10":"tag-love-is-not-the-answer","11":"tag-lucas-hedges","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-shirley-henderson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332423","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=332423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}