{"id":858105,"date":"2026-09-23T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858105\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:20:09","slug":"jean-smart-joins-the-family-stone-2-with-rachel-mcadams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858105\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Smart Joins ‘The Family Stone 2’ With Rachel McAdams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJean Smart<\/a> has joined the cast of Searchlight Pictures\u2019 \u201cThe Families Stone<\/a>,\u201d the sequel to the 2005 Christmas comedy \u201cThe Family Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSmart joins previously announced cast members Rachel McAdams<\/a> (Amy Stone), Sarah Jessica Parker (Meredith Morton), Claire Danes (Julie Morton), Dermot Mulroney (Everett Stone), Craig T. Nelson (Kelly Stone), Luke Wilson (Ben Stone), Tyrone Giordano (Thad Stone), Elizabeth Reaser (Susannah Stone), Paul Schneider (Brad Stevenson) and Brian White (Patrick Thomas).<\/p>\n

\n\tSearchlight\u2019s official logline for \u201cThe Families Stone\u201d reads, \u201cTwenty years after their mother\u2019s passing, the Stone family reunites for Christmas only to face the season\u2019s biggest surprise: their father has unexpectedly invited the woman he\u2019s fallen in love with (Smart) to meet the family.\u201d The sequel is set to begin filming in New York in the fall.<\/p>\n

\n\tSmart is best known for leading the cast of HBO\u2019s \u201cHacks.\u201d She recently took home the Emmy<\/a> for her portrayal of Deborah Vance in the fifth and final season of the comedy series, becoming the first female performer to win an Emmy for every season of a show. On the film side, Smart\u2019s credits include \u201cBabylon,\u201d \u201cWildflower,\u201d \u201cSenior Moment\u201d and \u201cSuperintelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t2005\u2019s \u201cThe Family Stone\u201d follows Parker as traditional businesswoman Meredith Morton, who goes home with her boyfriend Everett Stone, played by Mulroney, to visit his eccentric extended family during their Christmas celebration. \u201cThe Family Stone\u201d refers, of course, to Everett\u2019s family, but also to an heirloom wedding ring Meredith must prove she\u2019s worthy of by winning over Everett\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Families Stone\u201d was first revealed<\/a> by writer-director Tom Bezucha in 2025. The announcement came shortly after the death of Diane Keaton<\/a>, who played the Stone family matriarch Sybil in the first movie.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been haunted by the loss of Sybil for months now while I worked on it, and so this was a blow on a tender bruise already,\u201d Bezucha said at the time. \u201cMentally, I\u2019ve been spending time in that house where I\u2019ve been missing her for a while already.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSmart is repped by WME and Untitled Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jean Smart has joined the cast of Searchlight Pictures\u2019 \u201cThe Families Stone,\u201d the sequel to the 2005 Christmas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,123037,88,95954,126376,362333],"class_list":["post-858105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-diane-keaton","tag-entertainment","tag-jean-smart","tag-rachel-mcadams","tag-the-families-stone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858105","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=858105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}