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Ray Romano To Star With Laurie Metcalf In His Directorial
Actor-comedian Ray Romano is set to direct and star in an untitled dramedy movie. According to Deadline, the 63-year-old actor will star opposite Laurie Metcalf, best known for featuring in Roseanne and its spin-off The Conners .
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Los Angeles: Actor-comedian Ray Romano is set to direct and star in an untitled dramedy movie. According to Deadline, the 63-year-old actor will star opposite Laurie Metcalf, best known for featuring in “Roseanne” and its spin-off “The Conners”.
Romano, who most recently starred in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”, co-wrote the script withScrubswriter and producer Mark Stegemann. The story follows Leo (Romano) and Angela (Metcalf) Russo who live a simple, blue-collar life in Queens, surrounded by the big personalities of their overbearing Italian-American family.
The Last Shift is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an aging fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative politics keep landing him in trouble. These two who share little in common are brought together through circumstance. Stanley, a high school dropout who has watched life pass by his drive-through window, proudly details the nuances of the job. While Jevon, a columnist who’s too smart to be flipping patties, contends their labor is being exploited. A flicker of camaraderie sparks during the long overnight hours in a quiet kitchen.
academy saw the quality of the movie, and the way that it resonates emotionally and comedically. you know, i think with audiences, i mean folks just aren t used to racing off to the cineplex to see, you know, a black and white movie with no major stars. but our job as filmmakers is to try and enlarge the dialogue. and try and, you know, tell true stories, and hopefully people eventually will connect with it. you know the audiences that have seen this movie, it s really, really resonated with them. and a lot of people have seen it. so if somebody had asked us at the beginning of the day if, you know, $18 million and a bunch of nominations we d be happy with that, we would have been ecstatic. so we think the film has succeeded beautifully. ron yerxa, albert berger, good luck at the big show, and thanks for some great movies. thank you very much. pleasure. all right. yeah.