Emmy nominee Mandy Moore (This Is Us) has found her next major role in The Breadwinner, a TriStar Pictures comedy in which she’ll star opposite top comic Nate Bargatze, Deadline has learned.
Marking Bargatze’s feature film acting debut, the film sees Nate’s supermom wife, Katie, land a deal on Shark Tank. Subsequently, the lifelong breadwinner of the family becomes a stay-at-home dad and quickly realizes he’s in way over his head.
Rounding out the cast, as the daughters of the on-screen couple, are Stella Grace Fitzgerald (Rebel Moon), Birdie Borria (The Fabelmans), and Charlotte Ann Tucker (Thunderbolts).
Bargatze and Lagana penned the script, with TriStar preemptively acquiring the package back in November, as we were first to report. Eric Appel, the Emmy-winning director of Weird: The Al Yankovic Project, struck a deal to helm the feature in February, as you’ll recall from our subsequent reporting.
In addition to Bargatze and Lagana, Jeremy Latcham will produce through Wonder Project, with Shary Shirazi overseeing for the studio.
Since starring in NBC’s highly lauded ensemble family drama This Is Us from creator Dan Fogelman, which ran for six seasons, Moore has starred in Peacock’s Dr. Death and lent her voice to #1 Happy Family USA, Amazon’s new adult animated series from Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady, which premiered on Prime Video on April 17. In 2023, she attached to star opposite Kumail Nanjiani in Screen Gems’ Thread: An Insidious Tale, though the status of that project is unclear.
The Hollywood Reporter was first to the news of Moore’s casting in The Breadwinner.
