{"id":934935,"date":"2026-07-14T19:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/934935\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:24:23","slug":"rosario-dawson-lamorne-morris-joshua-jackson-join-the-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/934935\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosario Dawson,\u00a0Lamorne Morris,\u00a0Joshua Jackson Join &#8216;The Girlfriend&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rosario-dawson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rosario-dawson\" data-tag=\"rosario-dawson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rosario Dawson<\/a> (Ahsoka),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lamorne-morris\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lamorne-morris\" data-tag=\"lamorne-morris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lamorne Morris<\/a> (Fargo),\u00a0Joshua Jackson (The Affair), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stephen-root\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-root\" data-tag=\"stephen-root\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Root<\/a>\u00a0(Barry) and Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones) are joining\u00a0Meghann Fahy and Glenn Howerton in movie <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-girlfriend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-girlfriend\" data-tag=\"the-girlfriend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Girlfriend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs we told you last week, Natalie Morales is directing for XYZ Films from a Glenn Howerton and Rich Appel (Family Guy)\u00a0script. Production is currently underway with Dawson joining as a co-lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe logline reads: \u201cEve (Dawson) gives up her perfect New York City life and moves to Alabama for her husband Elliot\u2019s (Howerton) dream job. Seeing her isolated, friendless, and unhappy, Elliot does what any loving husband would do: he secretly hires an escort (Fahy) to be her new best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tXYZ Films is financing and producing in association with BuzzFeed Studios with backing from\u00a0IPR.VC\u00a0and Vixens\u00a0with support from the European Union under the InvestEU Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShawn Levy and Dan Levine are producing for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/21-laps\/\" id=\"auto-tag_21-laps\" data-tag=\"21-laps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21 Laps<\/a>, along with Jill Howerton and Glenn Howerton from Zoe Knife Productions, Rich Appel from Persons Unknown, Guy Danella and Nick Spicer from XYZ Films, Richard Alan Reid\u00a0from Buzzfeed Studios and Lee Kim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tXYZ is handling global sales, with WME co-repping domestic<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExecutive producers include Josh Kunau, Maxime Cottray, Aram Tertzakian, Andrea Scarso, Timo Argillander, John Straley, R. Wesley Sierk, Gary Farkas, Clement Lepoutre, Olivier Muller and Bertrand Perrodo. Emily\u00a0Feher\u00a0from 21 Laps will also have a producing role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDawson\u00a0is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment. Morris is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360. Jackson is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobson. Root is repped by Gersh Agency and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.\u00a0Patterson is repped by CAA and Range Media Partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka),\u00a0Lamorne Morris (Fargo),\u00a0Joshua Jackson (The Affair), Stephen Root\u00a0(Barry) and Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones) are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":934936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[258444,185,171,277954,315478,21115,46833,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-934935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-21-laps","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-lamorne-morris","tag-rosario-dawson","tag-stephen-root","tag-the-girlfriend","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116919970503537374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934935","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=934935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}