So who in Hollywood likes a Hand Job? Quite a few people I’d imagine, but only a relative few are going to get to be in a film by that name. Casting news has been coming in thick and fast for The Hand Job, with Collider talking to SNL actor and writer Bill Hader about the film, which was written and will be directed by his wife, Maggie Carey.
Hader revealed that along with the previously announced Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Recreation) in the lead role, “The cast she [Carey] got for it now is amazing. There’s Alia Shawkat, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons, Donald Glover, Connie Britton, Andy Samberg, me… that’ll be a cool thing to do together.”
Variety has now weighed in, adding that Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dominic Dierkes and D.C. Pierson have all hoovered up supporting roles in the flick. Apparently Maggie Carey is still trying to secure funding, but with a cast like that, it can only be a matter of time before someone ponies up the cash.
The story centres on Aubrey Plaza’s character, a recent high-school graduate who tries to broaden her sexual horizons before college. Here’s what Bill Hader said about the plot of this new comedy, and where the title comes from, “It’s about her (Aubrey Plaza) playing an type-A, studious girl who graduates high school and hasn’t done anything with a guy. The summer before college she decides that she has to find out how to do everything in order to be properly prepared, so she makes a very serious bullet list of everything, like… hand-job, titty-fuck, blow-job, fingering, and just kinda checks one off every time she does it. She’s being the aggressor and is very straight-forward about it, like ‘Okay, so I’m going to give you a hand-job now.’ And the guys are very taken aback about it, especially her straight-laced friends.”
Britton will apparently play Plaza’s free spirited mother, Simmons will be her classmate, while Mintz-Plasse is Simmons’ sci-fi loving best friend. Glover, Dierkes and Pierson will team up to be a trio of lifeguards, while Shawkat and Whitman playing two of Plaza’s friends. Hader will be a perpetually stoned pool manager. It’s not clear yet who Samberg will be.