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Edie FalcoWanda is caught up in all the family problems We weekly‘s exclusive look at the I’ll be right there trailer.
In the first look at the comedy, Wanda (Falco) fills in on friend Marshall (Michael Rapaport) about her unconventional family’s latest escapades, including her mother’s health diagnosis, as she searches for a new chapter in her life.
“Ever since she thought she had lung cancer, leukemia is somehow the best news in the world,” Wanda reveals, as her mother, Grace (Jeannie Berlin), announces her diagnosis to her old friends on the street.
Wanda goes on to say that her son, Mark (Charlie Tahan), was “kicked out of therapy” for lying. Her daughter, Sarah (Kayli Carter), has her own problems as her pregnancy and wedding approaches.
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Brainstorming media“[I]I’m so pregnant that if I throw the bouquet away, the baby might reach out and try to catch it,” says Sarah as she tries on her wedding dress.
When it comes to her own love life, Wanda plays coy in the scene where she is caught in bed with Sophie (Sepideh Moafi) flashes across the screen.
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“Have you always been a lesbian?” Henry (Bradley Whitford) Wanda asks as she carries a baby on his chest. Wanda explains the development and says: “It’s a recent thing.”
A heavily pregnant Sarah jokes: ‘I always thought I was the most interesting person in this family, but it turns out I’m a distant third’ as her mother’s life heats up.
Marshall, meanwhile, confesses that he is “crazy” about Wanda and claims that her children “take advantage” of her, but as soon as they need her she “just runs away.”
Despite her children’s faults, Wanda makes it clear that she doesn’t like the idea of leaving them. “They give me everything I need,” she says to friend Albert (Michael Strand), confessing her bond with her family makes her “feel guilty.”
“Maybe you feel guilty because you know what you want and most people don’t,” Albert muses.
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I’ll be right there marks the reunion of star Falco, 61, and director Brendan Walshwho previously collaborated on Nurse Jackie. (Falco played the titular character Jackie Peyton on the Showtime series from 2009 to 2015. Walsh, meanwhile, directed eight episodes of the show and was an assistant director on 21 episodes.)
The comedy was written by Jim Beggarly and produced by Peter Blok, Cory Neal, Bradley Ross, Ross Meyerson, Julie Tukker and Walsh. The project’s executive producers are Jesse Eisenberg and Falco.
“Wanda has her hands full,” reads the official synopsis. “Her eight-month pregnant daughter wants a wedding that her ex-husband won’t pay for, her mother thinks she’s dying, her wayward son is going to rehab or the military, her old boyfriend doesn’t turn her on, but her new one Neither does her girlfriend, and she hardly has time for herself, not that she would even know what to do with it.”
The logline teases, “Wanda must figure out how to keep her complicated family together while finding her own love and happiness.”
I’ll be right there will be in cinemas from Friday 6 September.