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Jenna Ortega Signs On To Co-Star in The Weeknd’s Film Debut


After co-creating and starring in “the sleaziest love story of all time”—the nonetheless unreleased collection The Idol for HBO Max, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye can be making his function movie debut. Tesfaye has teamed up with 2019’s Waves director Trey Edward Shults to co-write the untitled movie, which additionally stars Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan.

Plot particulars for the mission are nonetheless below wraps, however the script was co-written with Shults, Tesfaye and his producing associate Reza Fahim (who additionally co-created The Idol). Deadline experiences that each Ortega and Keoghan jumped on the mission after studying the script. Promising, as each are at the moment a number of the most indemand younger actors in Tinsel City.

Ortega has had a meteoric 12 months, going from being finest identified for her function on Netflix’s You to starring within the the streamer’s smash hit Wednesday, for which she obtained Golden Globe and Display screen Actors Guild Awards nominations. She was additionally in Scream and X in 2022, cementing her standing as a horror darling.

Keoghan is at the moment nominated for finest supporting actor for his function in The Banshees of Inisherin, which he starred in alongside fellow Irish actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. He’s additionally anticipated, although nonetheless not confirmed to reprise his function as The Joker after a shock cameo in The Batman earlier this 12 months.

As for Tesfaye, he’s stayed busy persevering with to advertise his Jim Carrey-featuring 2022 album Daybreak FM, the Ariana Grande remix of his 2016 hit “Die For You,” and the HBO live performance movie from his newest tour. The Idol nonetheless has no launch date, however has a star-studded forged together with Lily-Rose Depp, Jennie of Blackpink, Troye Sivan and Rachel Sennott.

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