The Bear and Theater Camp actress Molly Gordon is stepping behind the digicam for the highschool glory days comedy Peaked.
Everybody remembers highschool in a different way. For some, highschool was an period of overachievement, resulting in a false sense of how aggressive life can turn into exterior the hallowed halls of judgment, ridicule, and misguided lust. For others, highschool is a specter of the previous higher left behind after years of jeers, rumors, and misinformation about how the world features. For The Bear‘s Molly Gordon (Theater Camp, Booksmart, You Individuals), highschool is the setting of her new comedy venture with A24 known as Peaked.
Because the movie’s title suggests, Peaked focuses on the glory days of promenade planning and experimentation and that fleeting time once we really feel invisible. In keeping with the official logline, the movie follows “the two girls who traumatized you in high school as they try to relive their glory days at their 10-year reunion.” You keep in mind them. I definitely do.
Along with her starring position, Molly Gordon is co-writing Peaked together with her good friend Allie Levitan, who writes for Saturday Evening Stay. Gordon additionally directs the venture and produces alongside A24, David Hinojosa, and Zach Nutman of 2AM. Levitan government produces, with Subject Studios co-financing. Beforehand, Gordon directed and co-wrote the 2023 comedy Theater Camp, starring Gordon, Ben Platt, and Noah Galvin. Theater Camp tells the story of an eccentric workers of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York who should band along with the beloved founder’s bro-y son to maintain the camp afloat. Theater Camp received the U.S. Dramatic Particular Jury Award for Ensemble earlier than getting acquired by Searchlight for $8 million. Theater Camp additionally seems on the Nationwide Board of Assessment’s Prime Ten Impartial Movies of 2023 checklist, counting Gordon as a blossoming expertise to observe.
Did you go to your 10-year highschool reunion? I went to mine, however I lasted solely two hours earlier than I left to attend a Blonde Redhead live performance. Don’t fear. I nonetheless paid the price to assist make the get together occur, however I wasn’t fascinated by sticking round. Are you a fan of Molly Gordon’s efficiency on FX‘s The Bear? What highschool stereotype have been you? I sat on the “Freak” desk. Chain wallets and JNCO denims ceaselessly! Tell us if you wish to be taught extra about Peaked within the feedback beneath.
