co-stars and are actors’ actors. They’re highly regarded by their peers, and they elevate every project they’re a part of, whether it’s an indie, a blockbuster or a prestigious cable series. And as soon as the audience sees them on the big or small screen, they immediately know they’re in good hands with the two reliable actors.
The duo first worked together on season three of Noah Hawley’s Emmy-nominated series, and they spent six years trying to reunite until the SAG strike in the summer of 2023 presented a unique opportunity to do just that by way of an interim agreement. The result is Jeffrey Reiner’s comedic neo-noir , which premieres tonight at New York City’s . The writer-director — who previously worked with Whigham and his daughter Giorgia on a 2018 episode of — sent the script to the Florida native nearly a year before the July ‘23 strike accelerated the matter.
And right when Whigham was about to make his frequent recommendation of Coon for the female lead role, Reiner beat him to the punch. “When Jeffrey and I were sitting together one day, he went, ‘I want this actress that I’ve been thinking about while writing.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, who?’ And he said, ‘Carrie Coon,’” Whigham tells prior to ’s world premiere in Tribeca’s Spotlight Narrative category.
Whigham plays Don, a white-collar criminal who’s just completed a 10-year prison sentence, and when he goes to retrieve a past debt from the mobster (Glenn Fleshler’.
