Scottish actress Karen Gillan to star in another blockbuster

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Scottish actress Karen Gillan is to star in another blockbuster - this time as an aimless millennial who confronts her mother's early-onset of Alzheimer's.

She will appear opposite Margaret Sophie Stein, Jermaine Fowler, Kevin Nealon and Talia Balsam in the Lisa Steen-directed comedy 'Late Bloomers'.Filming has wrapped in Brooklyn, New York.The film written by Anna Greenfield is loosely based on her experience living in Brooklyn in her 20s.Deadline Holywood said the plot centres on Louise (Gillan), an aimless millennial who drunkenly breaks her hip, landing her in physical therapy.There, she makes an elderly Pole (Stein) who speaks no English.

And it's this unlikely friendship that gives her the courage to face what she's been running from all along- her mother's early-onset of Alzheimer's.Fowler plays Louise's Craigslist roommate/landlord Brick, with Nealon and Balsam as her parents.Late Bloomers marks the feature directorial debut of Greenfield's frequent collaborator, Steen.The pair previously worked together on the short films Sundowners and Stepdaddy, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, respectively, as well as the shorts Games for Girls and New Adult.Gillan is an award-winning actress known around the world for her character Nebula in the Guardians of the Galaxy films and other Marvel projects.She's also known for her role as Ruby Roundhouse in Sony's recent pair of Jumanji films, and as Amy Pond over three seasons of Doctor Who.She can currently be seen in Taika Waititi's Thor: Love and Thunder and will next appear in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.