JK Simmons Joins Nicholas Hoult in Clint Eastwood’s ‘Juror No. 2’ – The Hollywood Reporter

J. K. Simmons

Rob Northway

Academy Award winner J. K. Simmons joins Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette in the film Juror No. 2a legal thriller directed by Clint Eastwood for Warner Bros.

Filming is currently underway in Atlanta.

In addition to Holt and Collette, Gabrielle Basso, Zoey Deutch, Leslie Bibb, Chris Messina and Kiefer Sutherland are on the recall list.

According to the studio’s official filing, the screenplay by Jonathan Abrams follows family man Justin Kemp (Hoult) who, while serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, finds himself grappling with a serious moral dilemma…a jury verdict of guilty or go free for the wrongful killer.

Simmons will play one of the jurors.

Colette plays the prosecutor, Basso the accused, and Messina the public defender. Deutch plays Hoult’s wife, while Sutherland is AA’s main sponsor.

In addition to directing, Eastwood produces via his production company Malpaso. Malpaso’s Tim Moore and Jessica Mayer and Dichotomy’s Adam Goodman and Matt Skena are also producing.

Simmons won an Oscar for his role as the stubborn music professor in director Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed drama. injury, one of the many awards the actor received for this role. He received an Academy Award nomination for his work opposite Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in 2021 Being Ricardos. He continues to rely on his role as a fan favorite Daily bugle Publisher J. Jonah Jameson has appeared in several Spider-Man films and has voiced the character in them Spider-Man: Through the Spider-Verse.

The Gersh-repped actor is the next star You can’t run foreverA thriller film directed by his wife, Michelle Schumacher. He will also be seen in the Netflix thriller the Union Along with Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry.