Fisher Stevens
The Tiger King producer and Succession series regular is about to debut his feature film starring the entertainer on Apple TV+.
If it s difficult to pigeonhole Fisher Stevens, that s by design. At various points in his career, the 57-year-old Chicago native has been an actor (he s starred in everything from the
Short Circuit movies to CBS
Early Edition and is currently on HBO s
Succession); producer (of environmental docs like the Oscar-winning
The Cove, plus the Netflix sensation
Tiger King); and director.
Palmer his third narrative feature as a helmer is a story set in the rural South about an unlikely relationship that forms between a onetime high school football star (Justin Timberlake), recently released from jail, and a boy named Sam (Ryder Allen) who likes to play with dolls. Ahead of the film s Jan. 29 release on Apple TV+, Stevens who is married to producer Alexis Bloom, with whom he has two young children chatted with