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Eve Hewson to star in new movie with George Clooney and Adam Sandler

Eve Hewson
Eve Hewson

Irish actors Eve Hewson and Thaddea Graham are set to star alongside George Clooney and Adam Sandler in director Noah Baumbach's new movie Jay Kelly.

Netflix has released a first look image from the film, which is described as "a heartbreaking comedy", and which will be in select cinemas and streaming on 5 December.

George Clooney in Jay Kelly, which is in cinemas and on Netflix in December

Hewson, the daughter of U2 front man Bono, has previously starred in This Must Be the Place, The Luminaries, Behind Her Eyes, comedy series Bad Sisters, and The Perfect Couple.

Clooney and Hewson have worked together before on Hedda, which is about Henrik Ibsen's renowned 1891 stage drama, Hedda Gabler, and is due to released this October.

Speaking on RTÉ Radio 1 last year, he told Miriam O'Callaghan, "Eve is a good friend of mine."

Thaddea Graham

Northern Ireland actress Thaddea Graham has appeared in Sky One series Curfew, Netflix series The Letter for the King, Sex Education, and the BBC series Us.

Written by Emily Mortimer and Baumbach, who has previously directed the acclaimed movies Marriage Story, The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, and Frances Ha, the tagline for the new project reads, "Everybody knows Jay Kelly, but Jay Kelly doesn't know himself."

The cast also includes Billy Crudup, Laura Dern, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Riley Keough, Emily Mortimer, Patrick Wilson, Nicôle Lecky, Jim Broadbent, Alba Rohrwacher, Lenny Henry, Josh Hamilton, and Greta Gerwig.

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