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Chris O’Dowd, so great as Kristen Wiig’s love interest (no, the other one – the one without the six-pack), in “Bridesmaids” will reunite with that film’s producer Judd Apatow on his upcoming “Knocked Up” spin-off, “This is Forty”.
The film, which fixes on Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s characters from “Knocked Up”, had previously announced Albert Brooks (hell yeah!) and Megan Fox (get ’em off!) for its cast.
Now, in addition to O’Dowd, Variety says Lena Dunham (Apatow’s HBO show ”Girls”), (“Knocked Up”) and Wyatt Russell (“Cowboys & Aliens”) have been enlisted.
O’Dowd and Dunham will play employees of Rudd’s indie record company, while Russell will play a hockey player. Yi will reprise her “Knocked Up” character, Jodi.
O’Dowd has entertained a tidal wave of offers since playing Kristen Wiig’s law-enforcing love interest in Universal’s Apatow-produced “Bridesmaids.” Laffer recently crossed the $100 million mark. He previously appeared in “Dinner for Schmucks” and just starred in BBC mini “The Crimson Petal and the White.” Irish thesp has worked with Fox before, having recently wrapped Jennifer Westfeldt’s indie comedy “Friends With Kids.”
Dunham and Apatow are exec producing the upcoming HBO series “Girls,” which Dunham also wrote, directed and stars in, just as she did the Indie Spirit Award winner “Tiny Furniture.” Yi is an accomplished standup comic who recently starred opposite Michael Cera in the Sundance award-winning feature “Paper Heart,” while Russell will soon be seen in DreamWorks/Universal’s summer tentpole “Cowboys and Aliens.”
Oh, Wyatt Russell is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. Cool name, eh!?
