Patty Jenkins Boards Michael Gandolfini-Starring Short ‘Tea’ as Executive Producer (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAngelique Jackson “Wonder Woman” and “Monster” director Patty Jenkins is lending her cache to the team behind “Tea,” an offbeat comedy about loneliness starring Michael Gandolfini (“The Many Saints of Newark,” the upcoming “Warfare”).
In the short, written and directed by emerging filmmaker Blake Rice, Gandolfini plays a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee, who is rehearsing asking out the girl of his dreams (Olivia Nikkanen) when he gets stung in the throat by a hornet.
As he goes into anaphylactic shock, the pair have to find a way to communicate as the young woman races to save his life. “With ‘Tea,’ Blake Rice has made a delightful and original short film with tons of charm and great execution.
Definitely the emergence of a great new voice in the medium,” Jenkins said of boarding the project. “Tea,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this summer as the only U.S.
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