Dave Franco has heard your concepts about enjoying a sure particular person of curiosity — and he's overwhelmed.

The Disaster Artist star reacted to the concept that he painting Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, whereas selling Collectively, his new horror movie along with his spouse, Alison Brie.

"I've by no means acquired extra texts in my life about something," Franco mentioned in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, laughing. "Not simply mates — anybody who has my cellphone quantity has reached out about it."

Brie agreed that "everybody" has contacted Franco about his resemblance to Mangione, however clarified that she doesn't suppose he's gotten "any official affords" from studios or producers who really wish to solid her husband.

Franco confirmed, "No official [offers]."

Yep, there's already a Luigi Mangione documentary within the works from an Oscar-winning director

When information of Mangione's arrest broke on Dec. 9, quite a few on-line spectators rapidly made comparisons between the suspect and Franco — so many, actually, that the actor skilled his third-most-popular week of Google searches of the previous 5 years. (He was solely barely extra Googled when he made his directorial debut with The Rental in the summertime of 2020, and was at his hottest when he co-starred in Netflix's Day Shift with Jamie Foxx in the summertime of 2022.)

Our most-anticipated motion pictures at Sundance 2025 — and our Awardist Should Checklist honorees

Nonetheless, within the occasion that Mangione's saga does get tailored for movie or TV, Franco in all probability isn't fairly the fitting decide to play the function — regardless of some bodily resemblance, the actor is 39 whereas the suspect is 26. Sure, he's performed younger earlier than, nevertheless it could be a bit bizarre watching a person pushing 40 painting a personality who graduated school in the course of the pandemic.

Watch Alison Brie streak by way of a lodge to attempt to calm husband Dave Franco's movie-premiere nerves

Franco and Brie mentioned showing, properly, collectively in Collectively throughout an interview with Leisure Weekly on the Sundance Movie Pageant on Saturday. "She's my favourite actress, so to get the prospect to work along with your favourite actress — what else are you able to ask for?" Franco mentioned.

Need extra film information? Join Leisure Weekly's free e-newsletter to get the most recent trailers, movie star interviews, movie critiques, and extra.

"I do my greatest work once I'm working with Dave as a result of I can't make a false transfer in entrance of him," Brie added. "He is aware of me higher than anybody on this planet, so there's an inherent authenticity and comfortability after we're working collectively. [In Together], we actually must exit on a limb for lots of scenes, and we're performing some loopy stuff, and there's no self-consciousness as a result of he's seen me at my worst, he's seen me at my greatest, and all the things in between. So it was like, 'Let's simply leap proper in!'"

Franco mentioned he was notably awestruck by Brie's physicality within the movie. "I knew she had it in her — she kills it on GLOW — and he or she has gone to this gymnasium for 15 years, and I've stayed away as a result of I don't wanna be seen along with her there on the identical time as a result of she's gonna disgrace me," he defined. "That mentioned, she actually, actually threw herself into this bodily, and we do plenty of actually intense stuff. There have been instances the place she even pushed the stunt double apart and was like, 'I acquired this. Let me do that one.'"

Addtional reporting by Alamin Yohannes.

Shut