Nerd Reactor spoke with Neal McDonough (Band of Brothers), Frank Grillo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy), Martin Starr (Spider-Man: No Way Home) and Jay Will (Rob Peace) about their characters’ storylines in Season 4.

Frank Grillo on Bill Bevelacqua’s Business with Dwight

Frank Grillo returns as Bill Bevelacqua, a rival mob boss whose business interests sometimes align with Dwight’s. Grillo explains that Bill sees Dwight’s ability to make money and the continued opportunity to work together.

“I think Bill’s always thinking about money,” Grillo tells Nerd Reactor. “I think he sees Dwight as a great earner. He knows Dwight knows how to make money, he’s got great ideas, and he knows how to execute them, and he’s not afraid.”

Garrett Hedlund on Mitch’s New Chapter

Garrett Hedlund is back as Mitch, who gets involved in horse racing this season while Dwight is dealing with a new threat of his empire falling. Hedlund says the new season pushes Mitch into a different chapter.

“This one for season four, we’re dealing with the government trying to take away our land, our casino, our bar, our weed shop, and so that’s a whole new adventure in this one,” Hedlund said. “But yeah, I think audiences are going to get to see something out of Mitch that was a little different from last year. Last year was a little bit of relationship from a blast from a past on them. This season’s a rebirth in certain senses.”

Jay will on Tyson’s Hip-Hop Venture

Jay Will returns as Tyson, whose journey into the hip hop industry has been building up since previous seasons. Will helps to shape the music featured in the series, getting to channel his songwriting and rapping experience.

“I think the mutual respect of everybody with production, studio, actors, Sly, me, everybody was totally in for it,” Will said of getting to showcase his rapping. “And I’m just grateful they trusted me. I’m honestly surprised, because I really didn’t expect this, the music venture, but it really turned out to be a beautiful hybrid you never would expect.”

Martin Starr on Bodhi’s Deepened Relationship with Dwight

Martin Starr returns as Bodhi, whose relationship with Dwight continues to deepen in Season 4. Starr appreciates the opportunity to explore his character’s emotional side while working with Sylvester Stallone.

“They keep letting us dive into a deeper relationship,” Starr said. “I’m lucky that I get to share those moments with him. He’s such a giving performer, and it’s fun to get to work with and collaborate with someone as talented as Sly.”

Neal McDonough on Cal Thresher as the Governor

The first episode of the fourth season will shock those watching Cal Thresher’s arc from a businessman to the governor. McDonough is back as Cal, and he believes that his character wants what’s best for the state of Oklahoma.

“I think he becomes the governor for altruistic reasons,” McDonough explained. “He’s not there just for the power of it. He’s there because he thinks he can actually help his state that he loves so much and protect not just his assets, but protect the state.”

Tulsa King Season 4 premiered on October 16 on Paramount+.

About Tulsa King

Synopsis: In Season Four, Dwight (Stallone) fights to legitimize his empire and protect his crew as corrupt politicians, dangerous new enemies, and a crushing personal loss hit from every direction. However, every hard-won gain comes with even harder truths: about loyalty, leadership and the cost of ambition. Each move drags Dwight deeper into the street instincts he left behind in New York – turning Tulsa into a battleground and Dwight into the one threat no one can afford to underestimate.

In addition to Stallone, Tulsa King Season Four stars Martin Starr, Jay Will, Vincent Piazza, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Caldovino, McKenna Quigley Harrington, Frank Grillo, Mike “Cash Flo” Walden, James Russo, Kevin Pollak, Neal McDonough, with Garrett Hedlund and Dana Delany. Gretchen Mol also joins the cast for Season 4 as a series regular.

Terence Winter is head writer and executive producer. Tulsa King is also executive produced by Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, Sylvester Stallone, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Thomas Kelly, and Keith Cox.

The series is produced by Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios.

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Nerd Reactor chatted with director Casey Stangl about bringing the play to life.

“When is it a tool and when is it just doing the work for you? Anyway, so that’s the essential nature of the play,” Stangl tells Nerd Reactor. “Matt is a writer, and he set out to write a funny human play that also is a relationship story. It’s not setting out to be a full-on philosophical examination of what AI is and our society and our culture.

“It’s a little lighter than that, but it definitely is very astute in its observations of exploring what those large language models are like. For me, the thing that I love about the play the most is how much the AI essentially reflects our humanity back to us for better or worse.”

There have been many AIs featured in films, from Terminator and I, Robot to Westworld. With the latter, Stangl talks about what makes us human, and a part of that is suffering.

“That suffering makes us human, and then living that in the robots, I just thought that was the most fascinating thing,” Stangl said about Westworld. “Bobby, in some ways, our Bobby, there’s a weird anxiety in a way that he has to fulfill his purpose, which is to help this person. I mean, it’s even weird to call him a he, but he, I mean, we do refer to him as a he. He has no existence except when he’s interacting with the writer.”

The play does touch on how AI can be scary, but at its core, the play is still a comedy.

“I think that what the play really talks about is how vulnerable we can become and how much that leaves us open to the vagaries of this technology,” she explained. “We think of AI as like, ‘Oh, everything, like at the beginning of the internet, right?’ Like everything you would read is true. And so these are super intelligent, and they know everything, and it’s really not true, right? They make **** up; they lie. In our play anyway, it’s all in service of what we think they think is giving us what we want. And that’s pretty scary. I do think that is examined a little bit in the play, but again, I think the play stays at the level of the relationship and is essentially a comedy.”

About Bobby Robotowitz

A site-specific production performed in two secret locations in Los Angeles – one Westside (Pico-Robertson) and one Eastside (Silver Lake) – to be disclosed upon ticket purchase. Produced in association with InHouse Theatre, the Los Angeles company that has spent twelve years making intimate, site-specific work in real spaces rather than in any fixed theater.

Westside Cast (Oct 15 – Nov 2): Amy Rosoff* as Dina & James Luster* as Bobby

Eastside Cast (Nov 5 – Nov 23): Erin Alexis as Dina & Drew Rausch^ as Bobby

*IAMA Theatre Company Ensemble Member

^InHouse Theatre Ensemble Member

Tickets are available at https://www.iamatheatre.com/bobby-robotowitz.

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In Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, the film follows Kapoor’s story of how a private doctor got thrown into the limelight. Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) portrays Kapoor, who had to put his life in the public eye to try to clear his name. Abbie Cornish, who can be seen in Prime Video’s Jack Ryan and Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch, portrays Anna Nicole Smith.

“But then the crazy thing in getting to know [Sandeep] was, he still has an office here in LA,” Penn tells Nerd Reactor. “And I remember going in and being like, ‘Wow, it’s a small office.’ He has a very small patient list. … It would not have been uncommon, especially in those days, because he had a small client or patient list to get invited to his patients’ bar mitzvahs or sweet 16s or birthday parties.

“So I didn’t recognize that he was running and still is running this 1950s-style, very human medical operation. And once I understood that, I was like, oh, so it wouldn’t be weird for even your celebrity patient to be like, ‘Oh, what are you doing this weekend? Do you want to come to this parade or this party?’ And I think that was one of the first things that really unlocked who he was and the decisions that he was making.”

Kal Penn discusses the mistakes Kapoor made, and how as a viewer, he would be perplexed as someone looking in from the outside.

“He makes a lot of mistakes, as you know from the film,” the actor said. “And I think we depict that pretty well, where he’s making bad decision after bad decision, which he did in real life. You’re just kind of watching this going, ‘Why would you do this? Why would you omit key information from your own defense lawyer in the service of you being innocent?'”

Defending Kapoor is Ellyn Garofalo, portrayed by Linda Hamilton (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Stranger Things). The trial attorney has represented many high-profile defendants, and in Kapoor’s case, she wanted to defend him both in the court and in the court of public opinion.

“But she is the one that’s trying to parcel out the truth and also create an image for him to sort of help with the case,” Hamilton tells Nerd Reactor. “I mean, it really is an interesting study in the underworkings of what people do before they have to go to trial.”

Director Thane Economou wanted to focus on how a person can get sucked into the whirlwind of Hollywood.

“This is not someone who was at the center of the whirlwind,” the filmmaker tells Nerd Reactor. “This is not someone who was heavily implicated. This was to me the story of what if a mild-mannered quiet man has just a tangential brush with the whirlwind of fame and excess and Hollywood and just gets sucked into it.”

Economou told Kapoor that he wanted to show the mistakes, and the doctor was open to it.

“I said, ‘Listen, every single mistake that you made, I’m gonna put it in the film. I’m not gonna sugarcoat things,'” Economou said. “And he said, ‘Yes, I’m down for that; I’m open to that. I want people to kind of see the full breadth and three-dimensionality of the stories.'”

As for working with Cornish, Economou was amazed at how she captured Smith.

“With Kal, it was always him and I joking around on set and reworking dialogue with Abbie,” Economou explained. “Because she was in hair and makeup, we’d always have the set ready for her. And we’d be working on something else and we’d hear Abbie coming. And then she’d walk on the set, and I swear to God, it was like Anna walked on the set. And we would just jump right into the scene.”

The film opens in theaters Friday, October 16, 2026.

About Trust Me, I’m a Doctor

Synopsis: Trust Me, I’m a Doctor follows Dr. Sandeep Kapoor after his life is turned upside down when he is implicated in the death of his former patient, model and reality television star Anna Nicole Smith. Set against the height of the early 2000s tabloid era, the film chronicles Kapoor’s fight to clear his name as paparazzi descend on his office, police raid his home, private journals are leaked, and every aspect of his personal life becomes public. With the guidance of respected attorney Ellyn Garofalo, Kapoor must navigate a high-stakes drug conspiracy trial while confronting the intersection of celebrity, justice, politics and personal redemption.

The film is directed and written by Thane Economou and stars Kal Penn, Linda Hamilton, and Abbie Cornish.

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Tenzing yearns to reach the top of Mount Everest, and he had many doubters. Phuntsok explains that the Sherpa way of life is about survival.

“It’s honestly for survival,” Phuntsok tells Nerd Reactor. “The Sherpa people keep climbing, keep working as porters, just to survive and help their families. Even though they risk their lives every day, they keep doing this, pushing themselves to do that. And if they don’t do that, maybe it’s hard to find another job. Of course, it’s also part of the dream, but it’s more than a dream. It’s survival.”

The movie shines a light on who Tenzing is and his origin story. Phuntsok wants more people to know about him.

“I hope all the people around the world will pay attention to the Sherpa people and give them more love,” the Tibetan actor said. “There aren’t many stories from this perspective. This movie explains what the Sherpa people are doing in the valley.”

Willem Dafoe, known for playing the Green Goblin in Spider-Man, portrays Hunt as someone who wants the British to be the first to reach the summit. There are some clashes between John Hunt and Tenzing and Edmund. However, circumstances forced Hunt to change his approach in the expedition.

“He’s a guy that was born in India during the Raj,” Dafoe said. “He’s a mountain guy and military man, but his relationship to the Sherpas is not necessarily racist, but he sees them as apart. There’s the British over here; they’re always apart. That’s expressed very early in the movie. And it’s not a personal expression of how he feels. It’s a given feeling of the time, an accepted position at the time. And you see through experience how that shifts in the course of the expedition.”

One line Hunt says is: “Failure is not an option.” However, Dafoe believes that failure IS an option.

“After the expedition, I’m sure he would have said failure is an important part of learning, which is an important part of living,” Dafoe said. “It’s inevitable. That expressed his initial approach, which was a very military approach. But in fact, I think that gets adjusted in the course of the expedition.”

The interview has been edited for clarity.

About Tenzing

Synopsis: Based on true events, “Tenzing” chronicles the little-known story of Tenzing Norgay (Genden Phuntsok), a gifted Himalayan climber who, alongside New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary (Tom Hiddleston), became the first to summit Mount Everest. Encouraged by his wife Dawa (Thinley Lhamo), Tenzing finds an ally in expedition secretary Jill Henderson (Caitríona Balfe). Together, they persuade Colonel John Hunt (Willem Dafoe) that Tenzing belongs on the British climbing team, rather than merely serving it.

Where Western climbers see “Everest” as something to be conquered, Tenzing reveres “Chomolungma” as the sacred mother goddess. What follows is an ascent defined as much by the tensions between backgrounds, classes and competing ambitions as by the perils of the mountain itself. But high above the world, empire, rank and aspiration fall away, leaving two outsiders bound by mutual respect and trust — and for Tenzing, the fulfillment of both a life-long dream and a spiritual calling.

Directed by Jennifer Peedom from a screenplay by Luke Davies. The film is executive produced by Norbu Tenzing, Simon Gillis, and David Michôd.

The film stars Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe, Caitríona Balfe, Tenzin Dalha, and Thinley Lhamo.

Tenzing releases in select theaters on October 9, 2026, and on Apple TV on October 16, 2026.

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Loki recently made a surprise appearance in Avengers: Endgame Encore, visiting Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter in the past. The scene gave fans a taste of things to come for Avengers: Doomsday.

“At the end of Loki season two, he realizes that he can use his power as a demigod for a greater purpose, that the whole journey of Loki has been an exploration of purpose and meaning,” Hiddleston tells Nerd Reactor during the press junket for Apple TV’s Tenzing. “And his purpose exists for others, and that he’s going to use that purpose. So I arrived in Doomsday with all of that experience, with that story having been told, and it created a new starting point.”

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With Loki holding down the timeline in the MCU, it has given rise to a theory about his importance in Avengers: Doomsday. One theory suggests that he is serving as the stand-in for Molecule Man, a powerful Marvel Comics character featured in the Secret Wars storyline who helped Doctor Doom create Battleworld. However, Hiddleston did not confirm the theory during the interview.

You can catch Hiddleston in Tenzing, currently in select theatres and will be available on Apple TV on October 16, 2026.

About Avengers: Doomsday

Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Doomsday” is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo; produced by Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito and Jonathan Schwartz.

The film stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Pedro Pascal, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Wyatt Russell, Channing Tatum, Simu Liu, Ian McKellen, Hayley Atwell, Tom Hiddleston, James Marsden, Patrick Stewart, Joseph Quinn, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Letitia Wright, Lewis Pullman, Kelsey Grammer, Kathryn Newton, Danny Ramirez, Winston Duke, Alan Cumming, Hannah John-Kamen, Rebecca Romijn, Mabel Cadena, and Tenoch Huerta Mejia.

Synopsis: In “Avengers: Doomsday,” beloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered.

“Avengers: Doomsday” releases in theaters on December 18, 2026.

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Last Chance Motel follows Taylor-Compton and Harris as a newlywed couple whose wedding is turned upside down when a family that runs the venue has other ideas.

Heather Langenkamp is known for playing the final girl, Nancy, in A Nightmare on Elm Street. In Last Chance Motel, she is the antagonist Bobbi Love, a character that is the complete opposite of Nancy.

“I love being the good guy, I won’t lie,” Langenkamp tells Nerd Reactor. “It’s so special that I was able to play Nancy, who has so many incredibly strong qualities for women and men alike and teenagers as a group. But as you become more mature in this industry, you don’t really have the opportunity to play those characters anymore, and you just need to face reality. So you need to take on characters that are a 180 degrees different to show people that you have range and to show people that you’ll take on any character that comes your way.”

Taylor-Compton and Harris wanted to make Last Chance Motel specifically for hardcore horror fans, embracing the film’s blood, gore, and practical effects.

“We wanted to do this movie and make it gory,” Taylor Compton said. “Because we were inspired by some of the movies coming up, like Terrifier, and everybody speaking, ‘How much fun they had doing it.’ I think Danielle and I just wanted to do something as equally as fun because we’ve done these; I wouldn’t say that they’re tame movies, but there’s a level. So we’re like, ‘Well, let’s ****ing be bloody. Let’s do it.'”

Monica Keena also has a history with the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, having played the final girl Lori Campbell in Freddy vs. Jason. In Last Chance Motel, she plays Sugar, who is in a relationship with Cuervo, played by Zachary Roozen. She mentioned one of her favorite scenes, which was the film’s pool scene.

“And I have to say that the pool scene, I felt the energy that night,” Keena said. There was a lot of action going on and gore and blood and all this stuff. But there’s a really nice collaborative energy leading up to that.”

Roozen, who can also be seen in the horror comedy Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, talks about how fun the set is, especially with its practical effects.

“It’s fun every day looking at the call sheet and seeing at the bottom all of the things that’ll be used when,” he said. “It starts becoming like an encyclopedia of like tubing and all this different stuff. And you’re like, ‘Wow, this is going to be intense.’ But I think there’s something that’s so true. I’ve always loved horror in general, but I’ve always loved being on sets where everyone gathers around during iconic moments like that or things that you know are coming up. And I just love the collective nature of it.”

About Last Chance Motel

Synopsis: Their dream wedding in the Nevada desert turns into a fight for survival when the newlyweds discover the isolated motel hosting their big day is run by a relentless, bloodthirsty family with dark secrets of their own.

The film is directed by Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor-Compton and written by Harris, Taylor-Compton, and Brandon Slagle.

The film also stars Shane West, Sierra McCormick, and Robert Allen Mukes.

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Voicing Charming is Abubaker Salim (House of the Dragon, Assassin’s Creed Origins). The former royal member is the mayor of Ferryport Landing, and he has slowly transitioned from an antagonist to a supporting character.

“I think Charming is one of those where you think you have a number on him, who he is, and then he does something different,” Salim tells Nerd Reactor. “And you’re like, ‘Oh man! I really don’t know this guy,’ And I think it’s because he doesn’t know himself either. And I think that’s what we really are exploring in season two is his identity crisis of who he is.”

Puck, the Prankster

Puck is the prankster of the bunch in The Sisters Grimm, and he’s voiced by Billy Harris. The actor talks about channeling his inner Puck on the set of Ted Lasso, where he plays Colin Hughes.

“We were housed in this building, so we didn’t have trailers,” Harris said. “We had these little rooms, and we would always, if, let’s say, Toheeb or Kola or Phil left their rooms, we would just go in there and completely turn everything over. And when I mean over, like the table would be on the couch, their lunch would be on top of the lighting thing.

“And then when they came in, it was like something Puck would do, and it was. But we did it so many times that we were just used to it. We just were so numb to the feeling of ‘Oh yeah, someone just came into my room and just moved it all around.’ And then you slowly and surely put it all back together and then you eat your lunch.”

Relda Grimm, the Grandmother

Laraine Newman voices Relda Grimm, the grandmother of Sabrina and Daphne and the new caretaker after their parents’ disappearance.

“I’ve done a lot of shows where I get to do dialects, never gotten to do a German dialect, so this is different,” Newman said. “And I really love doing it.”

About The Sisters Grimm

Based on Michael Buckley’s New York Times bestselling book series, “The Sisters Grimm” is a journey of adventure and heart about sleuth-solving sisters descended from the Brothers Grimm who, while very different, make a pretty great team. In season two, one year after their parents’ mysterious disappearance, sisters Sabrina and Daphne Grimm continue uncovering the secrets of Ferryport Landing, where fairy tales and fairy tale creatures are real, as they face new adventures and mysteries.

The series is led by a stellar voice cast, including Ariel Winter (“Modern Family”) as “Sabrina,” Leah Newman as “Daphne,” Laraine Newman (“Saturday Night Live”) as “Relda,” Abubakar Salim (“Raised by Wolves”) as “Charming,” Billy Harris (“Ted Lasso”) as “Puck” and Harry Trevaldwyn (“How To Train Your Dragon”) as “Mirror.”

Developed by Emmy Award nominee Amy Higgins (“Star vs. the Forces of Evil”), who serves as showrunner, and Emmy Award nominee Erica Rothschild (“Sofia the First”), Emmy Award-winning studio Titmouse (“Duck and Goose,” “Harriet the Spy,” “Frog and Toad”) produces the animation for “The Sisters Grimm.” The six-episode series is executive produced by Higgins, Buckley (“Robotomy”), Emmy Award winner Elliot Blake (“Tomb Raider: Re\Visioned”), Emmy Award winner Philip Alberstat (“The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie”), Steven Amato (“27 Mins”) and Theresa Park (“Roar,” “Expats”) alongside Titmouse’s Chris Prynoski (“The Legend of Vox Machina”), Shannon Prynoski (“Scavengers Reign”), Ben Kalina (“Big Mouth”) and Antonio Canobbio (“Digman”). Sage Cotugno serves as supervising director.

The Sisters Grimm Season 2 premiered with all episodes on Apple TV on October 2, 2026.

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Starring as Johnny Cade is Bonale Fambrini (Netflix’s Daredevil), who has evolved the character since his first time portraying him.

“When I was preparing to play Johnny, I was prepared to just play this quiet, timid wallflower, like in the corner,” Fambrini tells Nerd Reactor. “My Johnny has become more alive, if that makes sense. We have a number with all the greasers having fun. It’s literally just us greasers. And I remember that towards the first couple runs of the show, I used to play him as this more timid kid who would limp around, and now he’s been able to grow into this really fun, ‘I don’t have a care in the world.'”

Danya Taymor, the director of the original Broadway and national tour production, helped Fambrini make Johnny his own.

“I think with Danya’s guidance and everything and all this teamwork, I was able to, if anything, look at these existing pieces of context and say, ‘Oh, I like how Ralph Macchio’s Johnny does this,'” Fambrini said. “I love how Sky Lakota-Lynch does his Johnny, and I got to pick and choose and really make my own Johnny and really keep what resonated and was true to myself.”

Getting the role felt like a roller coaster ride for Fambrini when he first auditioned for The Outsiders Off-Broadway.

“I’d seen the movie in seventh grade as well, and then I actually auditioned for The Outsiders before it was even on Broadway,” he said. “I think it was a developing workshop. It was under a different director, same producers. But this was like, I want to say, eight or nine years ago. Made it to the very final round, and then ultimately they were like, ‘Hey, you’re too young.’

“And then now, 2025, it comes across my table again. Made it to the very finals. I’m like, ‘Alright, I’m giving this job everything. I’m like a hundred and ten percent.’ After three, four months of auditions, they ultimately said no again. ‘Damn!’ And ‘No.’ Dude, this destroyed me. Like broken. And then a week later they’re like, ‘Hey, actually, give it one more try.’ I come back in, I do my audition, and now I’m here talking to you, man.”

Tickets for The Outsiders are available online at The Pantages Theatre (September 30 – October 18, 2026) and Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa (October 20 – November 1, 2026).

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Perseverance is one of the film’s central themes, and it’s something that Pressly has connected with throughout her career.

“I’ve been in this business 30 years,” Pressly tells Nerd Reactor during the Last Shot red carpet premiere in Los Angeles. “If anybody knows what perseverance is, it’s me. It takes a lot. You go through a lot of ups and downs, as Caden does, as my character Lexi does in this film. But perseverance is not giving up. Obviously, in the end, they both went out, and everything works out. But you have to go through the tough stuff to get through the good stuff.”

In the film, Caden also learns the importance of always shooting your shot to achieve your goals. Davis, who plays his coach and is a former Golden State Warriors player, was asked about his biggest “shoot your shot” moment.

“I would say my kids,” Davis says. “Every day you wake up, and you go to sleep, and you have an opportunity to impress them. I would say my greatest shot was making kids.”

Friedman portrays Caden, a young and gifted basketball player who moves to a new school and has to adapt to his new environment. For the actor, the film’s title represents getting another chance.

“Last shot means like, you messed up, it’s a second chance, and you use it to its fullest ability,” Friedman said. “And you did what you were supposed to do when you came back, and that just makes me feel good about myself because it also was with Caden. He messed up, he came back, and he conquered what he needed to do. It’s just a great message.”

Another message in Last Shot is the importance of teamwork. Cameron Gayden, who plays Alex Suarez, knows a thing or two about teamwork since he plays baseball in real life.
“Teamwork means everything to me, honestly,” the actor said. “So many great things about everything in my life involve teamwork.”

The film is written by Todd Friedman and directed by Andy Palmer.

It also stars Laraine Newman, Johnny Simmons, and Anthony B. Jenkins.

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Bassinger is known for her role as Stargirl in the CW superhero series. In Buzzkill, she steps up to become the new sorority leader after the death of the previous one.

“I think a lot of the writing does the heavy lifting when it comes to the comedy, and I find it funny when something chaotic or scary is going on,” Bassinger tells Nerd Reactor. “We just have to believe it a hundred percent, and the more you believe it, a lot of times the funnier it is. That’s my thought process.”

Aliyah’s Interlude is a musician who is making her feature film debut in Buzzkill.

“Honestly, I feel like although yes, the movie is extremely scary, and it’s a horror movie, but I think just the comedic aspects made it so much lighter,” Aliyah said. “If there’s a way to describe it like that, because I do feel like even when we were covered in all blood or the girls were screaming, or there are clowns, there was always just a punchline at the end that kind of lightened the entire mood. So I think it was a good balance, all in all.”

About Buzzkill

When a group of sorority sisters find themselves trapped with a vengeful killer, party-girl Nora (Agudong) knows that the drunker she gets, the more her tipsy memories start revealing clues about who’s murdering her friends. But she’d better hurry, or her next vodka soda might be her last call.

Buzzkill is written by Suzanne Keilly (Slumber Party Massacre) and directed by Jem Garrard (R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead).

The film debuts on September 25, 2026, on Tubi.

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