Since 2011, Max Greenfield has gained a rise to fame among television fans, playing the eccentric character of Schmidt on Fox’s New Girl. The actor has received much recognition for his role on the show, including nominations for a Critics’ Choice Television Award, a Golden Globe, and an Emmy Award.
Recently, Greenfield has been attempting to foray into cinema. In last year’s critically acclaimed The Big Short, the actor had a minor supporting role, followed by a more significant one in Hello, My Name Is Doris. The actor received praise from critics on the latter of the two roles, and now it seems that his attempts to break into the film industry have found fruition.
Yesterday, Variety revealed that the sitcom star will likely be starring alongside Brie Larson in Lionsgate’s The Glass Castle, the screen adaptation of Jeanette Walls’ memoir.
Larson’s most recent claim to fame was her performance in Room, for which she won an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. The actress will be starring as Jeanette Walls in The Glass Castle, under director Destin Daniel Cretton:
“[The Glass Castle] will chronicle how Walls’ parents, Rex and Rose Mary Walls, were free spirits who led a nomadic existence. Her mother was more concerned with painting and writing than, say, making dinner for her four kids, while her father could be inspiring and educational, but only when sober. The parents crumbled as their money ran low, and Jeanette and her siblings ended up more-or-less raising themselves. Walls herself (Larson in the film) went on to be a successful woman whose life was impacted when Rex and Rose Mary moved to New York to be near her” (Empire).
Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts will be playing Walls’ parents, while Greenfield will play her Husband. Cretton and Andrew Lanham are penning the script for the adaptation, and shooting will commence in June.
