EXCLUSIVE: Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mom) has come aboard to star reverse Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom) in Jill Takes a Break, a brand new comedic drama directed by Impartial Spirit Award winner Liz Cardenas.
Written by Scott Rodgers, the movie follows Jill (Smulders), a bartender in Lengthy Seaside who impulsively buys the dive bar she’s labored at for years — solely to find that proudly owning the chaos isn’t the identical as surviving it.
Hooked up to the challenge since its early growth, Sadoski will play Jill’s longtime accomplice, Vaughn, and likewise serve in a producorial capability. The movie will likely be produced by Talon Leisure, Pushed Equation and Ten to the Six Photos, with Steven Demmler (Oh, Canada, Bookworm) and Sundance fellow Helena Sardinha (Satisfaction) additionally hooked up as producers.
In 2024, Jill Takes a Break gained a growth award from the Austin Movie Society, based by Richard Linklater, and Cardenas was invited to take part in its invitation-only Artist Intensive, the place her Artistic Advisor was Fargo’s Noah Hawley. Chosen for the California Movie & Tv Tax Credit score Program, the movie would be the uncommon one capturing in Los Angeles this summer season.
Greatest identified for starring in How I Met Your Mom, and for her function as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill in quite a few Marvel movies, Smulders has most just lately been seen on reveals like Shrinking and Accused. Upcoming, she has Simple’s Waltz from True Detective‘s Nic Pizzolatto, the place she stars alongside Vince Vaughn, Al Pacino, and Simon Rex.
Sadoski has been seen starring in sequence like The Newsroom, Life in Items, The Crowded Room and American Sports activities Story, together with a number of John Wick movies and extra. Most just lately, he signed on to the dramedy Grownup Youngsters from director Wealthy Newey.
Cardenas is finest generally known as the producer or co-producer of titles like 7 Days, By no means Goin’ Again, and A Ghost Story. Beforehand, she’s additionally directed the award-winning shorts Imago and Treading Water.
Smulders is represented by UTA and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; Sadoski by Verve, Amplified, and Johnson Shapiro, Slewett & Cole; and Demmler by WME, 3 Arts, and Ramo Regulation.
