While Kristen Wiig is best known for his comedy work on Saturday Night Live and Bridesmaids, of late, she has been lightly dipping her toes into drama. Her comedy/drama The Skeleton Twins earned praise from audiences and critics alike, and her work in another dramedy Welcome to Me earned high praise in the festival circuit just a couple months ago.
Now audiences know when they can see Wiig's latest performance, for Millennium Films have acquired the U.S. distribution for the movie for a release next year.
Variety announced the studio investment, which comes three months after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Shira Piven, the wife of filmmaker Adam McKay (the Anchorman films), who also produces alongside Wiig, Will Ferrell, Aaron L. Gilbert, Marina Grasic and Jessica Elbaum, Welcome to Me centers on a Borderline Personality Disorder inflicted woman who, obsessed with fame, decides to make a TV show about herself when she wins $86 million in the lottery.
Starring alongside Wiig are James Marsden, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Wes Bentley, Linda Cardellini, Joan Cusack, Loretta Devine, Thomas Mann and Tim Robbins. The film is perhaps most well-known for Wiig's well-publized full-frontal nude scene. You may also remember this news clip where a reporter mix up with The Skeleton Twins, to hilarious results.
Wiig, heard in How to Train Your Dragon 2 alongside her appearances in the mini-series The Spoils of Babylon and the aforementioned The Skeleton Twins earlier this year, is currently shooting a part in Ridley Scott's The Martian and will be seen in The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Masterminds, and Nasty Baby next year.
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