With Kate Mara: Last News

Indie filmmaker Hannah Fidell is circling back to her roots. While she has made relationship dramas like “6 Years,” the Netflix comedy, “The Long Dumb Road,” and directed plenty of TV (“Casual,” “The Act,” “Sorry For Your Loss“), her latest project is the most ambitious of her career.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWhen Nick Robinson agreed to star in Greg Berlanti’s gay teen coming-of-age rom-com “Love, Simon,” he promised himself it would be the last time he played a high school student.But then Hannah Fidell came along to talk to him about playing a high school senior who has an affair with his English teacher (played by Kate Mara) in “A Teacher,” the new FX miniseries based on Fidell’s 2013 film of the same name.“This one felt very different to me,” Robinson says on the latest episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “It was not set solely in high school and the subject matter just felt much more mature than the typical high school story. It was a challenge.