{"id":339079,"date":"2025-10-28T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339079\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:48:12","slug":"the-julia-set-adds-six-to-cast-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339079\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Julia Set’ Adds Six To Cast (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> The Julia Set<\/a>, the coming-of-age drama on which we were recently first to report<\/a>, has added six to its cast: Nina Hoss<\/a> (T\u00e1r), Chloe Bailey<\/a> (Grown-ish), Carmen Ejogo<\/a> (Selma), Nico Hiraga<\/a> (Sweethearts), Liz Lin<\/a> (Salt Along the Tongue), and Alex Dillard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduction is underway in London. As previously announced, Chase Infiniti, Christopher Briney, Gillian Anderson, and Jason Isaacs lead the ensemble. Also new to the production is HanWay Films, which has come aboard to handle worldwide sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tHailing from writer-director Niki Byrne, The Julia Set has One Battle After Another breakout Infiniti playing Julia, a talented mathematician in a fiercely competitive academic environment. Briney, in his first film role since wrapping Prime Video\u2019s The Summer I Turned Pretty, plays Pascal, the T.A. who conscripts her into an elite prep course for the most challenging math competition in the world, The Putnam Exam.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo word on roles to be played by the newcomers. Ellen Chenoweth (No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, Past Lives) and Susanne Scheel (A House of Dynamite, Past Lives) cast the film, which Jeffrey Penman is producing alongside The Gotham Group\u2019s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Juror #2) and Lee Stollman (The Maze Runner, Stargirl), as well as Nick Scherma, Tayler Haynes, and Anderson. The film is being produced with the support of the If\/Then initiative, which advances culture change by highlighting positive STEM role models, with If\/Then\u2019s Nicole G. Small and Margaret Black exec producing alongside Infiniti. The film is a Potato Salad Cosmic Domination Production in association with The Gotham Group, If\/Then, G Nus Media, Cinetrain, and Melegrano.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement accompanying the new castings, HanWay Film CEO Gabrielle Stewart shared, \u201cWe all loved Niki\u2019s excellent screenplay following the journey of a young woman assuming her genius in an academic field dominated traditionally by men and how challenging that is for her. In a way this is a female-led Good Will Hunting. And the cast could not be more exciting nor of the moment!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHoss is a renowned German actor known for starring opposite Cate Blanchett in Todd Field\u2019s T\u00e1r who will next be seen in Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Hedda, which premiered at TIFF. She is repped by The Artists Partnership, Players Agentur Management, and CAA.<\/p>\n

\n\tBailey is a four-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, producer, and actress who\u2019s starred in projects like Grown-ish, Swarm, and Praise This. She is repped by CAA.<\/p>\n

\n\tBreaking out with roles in Born to Be Blue, opposite Ethan Hawke, and Ava DuVernay\u2019s Selma, where she played Coretta Scott King, Ejogo will next be seen in BBC\u2019s Wild Cherry, from director Toby MacDonald. She is repped by WME and The Artists Partnership.<\/p>\n

\n\tHiraga stars opposite Kiernan Shipka in New Line\u2019s Sweethearts, which is streaming on HBO Max. He also stars in Amy Landecker\u2019s directorial debut For Worse, which premiered at SXSW this year. Most recently wrapping on Amazon MGM and Lionsgate\u2019s The Devil\u2019s Mouth, he is repped by WME and Myman Greenspan.<\/p>\n

\n\tPreviously seen in Aussie indies including Salt Along the Tongue, which premiered at SXSW Sydney, and Lonesome, Lin is repped by Haven Entertainment and Australian agency Sophie Jermyn Management.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn actor with Down syndrome making his film debut in The Julia Set, Dillard is repped by Gamut Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The Julia Set, the coming-of-age drama on which we were recently first to report, has added six…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":339080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[167322,167323,54803,171,167324,53,167325,167326,167327,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-339079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alex-dillard","9":"tag-carmen-ejogo","10":"tag-chloe-bailey","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-liz-lin","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-nico-hiraga","15":"tag-nina-hoss","16":"tag-the-julia-set","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115453526283505019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}