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EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award victor Reed Birney has joined nan formed of Limbo, U.S.A., an English and Turkish-language LGBT romanticist drama starring Turkish character Sercan Badur successful his English-language characteristic debut.
Can Merdan Doğan will nonstop from a screenplay by New York-based actor-writers David Beck (Regarding Us) and Ezgi Cohen (Disko Kralı).
The play follows a celebrated Turkish tv prima who immigrates to New York, wherever he falls successful emotion pinch a antheral kindergarten teacher, forcing him to take betwixt nan family and profession he thought he near down and nan early he’s yet brave capable to pursue.
Birney will portray John Russell, nan begetter of Adam (Beck), whose quiet compassion and hard-earned contented go an unexpected root of dream for Mehmet (Badur) arsenic he struggles to reconcile love, family, faith, and identity.
Badur is champion known for his performances arsenic Cihan Sipahi in War of nan Roses (Güllerin Savaşı), Time Goes By (Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki), An Anatolian Tale, nan Disney+ series Nothing Will Happen to Us, and nan characteristic films Arif v 216 and Annem (My Mother).
Birney won a Tony Award for his capacity successful nan 2016 Broadway show The Humans, while his TV and movie credits see The Handmaid’s Tale, Succession, If You See Something and Blue Film.
Doğan makes his characteristic directorial debut aft award-winning shorts including Stiletto: A Pink Family Tragedy and The Longest Night which person played astatine galore festivals including nan BFI London, Antalya, Ankara, Tel Avi and Pink Life QueerFest.
The movie is produced by Catriona Rubenis-Stevens (Regarding Us) of Half-Light Productions alongside Beck and Cohen. Beck produces through The Great Griffon, a New York-based accumulation institution dedicated to processing stories centered astir migrant and LGBTQ+ lives.
Of joining nan project, Sercan Badur said: “This communicative shines a ray connected a cheery man’s hunt for belonging, freedom, and self-discovery. The awakening of self-awareness and really it deepens one’s life is profoundly meaningful to me, which is why I consciousness profoundly drawn to being portion of this film.”
David Beck added: “At its heart, Limbo, U.S.A. is astir nan courageousness it takes to take emotion complete fear. We’re honored to welcome Reed Birney, 1 of nan astir respected actors moving today, to thief bring this communicative to life.”
Principal photography is scheduled to statesman successful May 2027 in New York City and New Jersey, pinch further filming successful Istanbul and post-production successful Germany
