{"id":52296,"date":"2025-07-09T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52296\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:38:09","slug":"apple-film-being-heumann-casts-daniel-durant-4-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52296\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Film &#8216;Being Heumann&#8217; Casts Daniel Durant &#038; 4 More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apple\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple\" data-tag=\"apple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>\u2018s new feature <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/being-heumann\/\" id=\"auto-tag_being-heumann\" data-tag=\"being-heumann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Being Heumann<\/a> has added Michael Patrick Thornton (The Good Doctor, Broadway\u2019s A Doll\u2019s House), Antwan Tolliver (Gimme My Money), Daniel Durant (Flash Before the Bang, CODA), Jon Beavers (Paradise, Animal Kingdom) and Roberta Colindrez (A League of Their Own, Vida) to its cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film, based on author Judy Heumann\u2019s bestselling memoir, follows activist Heumann (Ruth Madeley) as she leads over a hundred people with disabilities in a takeover of the San Francisco Federal Building, kicking off a 28-day sit-in. The protestors quickly form a community, refusing to leave until the government enforces Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which requires all federal spaces to become accessible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBeing Heumann is adapted, directed and produced by Academy Award-winner Si\u00e2n Heder. She reunites with Durant, who played Leo Rossi in the Academy Award-winning film CODA, which Heder wrote and directed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDurant will play Steve McCleeland; Colindrez will play Joni Breves; Tolliver will play Brad Lomax; Beavers will play Jim Pechin; Thornton will play Ed Roberts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe previously announced cast also includes Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O\u2019Brien, Madeline Delp, Rob Delaney and Ray Fisher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHailing from Apple Studios, Being Heumann will be directed by Heder, under her overall deal with Apple, from her script written with Rebekah Taussig. David Permut will produce for Permut Presentations alongside Kevin Walsh, whose The Walsh Company is under an overall deal with Apple. Heumann\u2019s managers, John W. Beach and Kevin Cleary of Gravity Squared Entertainment, will also serve as producers, with Heumann, Being Heumann co-author Kristen Joiner, Diana Pokorny, and Jim Lebrecht executive producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTolliver is repped by RPT Entertainment LLC; Thornton is repped by Innovative Artists, Principal Entertainment LA; Beavers\u00a0is repped by\u00a0Greene Talent and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; \u00a0Durant\u00a0is repped by\u00a0Buchwald and Trice Koopman Management; Colindrez\u00a0is repped by\u00a0Paradigm Talent Agency and Davien Littlefield Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Apple\u2018s new feature Being Heumann has added Michael Patrick Thornton (The Good Doctor, Broadway\u2019s A Doll\u2019s House),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[239,26022,171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-52296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-being-heumann","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52296","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=52296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}