Jane Curtin Joins Anne Hathaway-Produced Film 'Little Five' as Filming Wraps in Indiana

Jane Curtin has joined the cast of Little Five, a 1980s-set drama produced by Anne Hathaway's Somewhere Pictures and Pigasus Pictures, Deadline reported on 19 August 2026.

Curtin will play Dean Weston, a formidable academic leader at Indiana University. The character presides over the campus where the film's story unfolds — Indiana University in the early 1980s, during the first women's running of the Little 500 bicycle race.

The Little 500 is a real relay race held annually at Indiana University, and the film draws on true events. Little Five follows four unlikely young women who come together to compete in that inaugural women's race. The four central riders are played by Sasha Frolova, Nadia Alexander, Rain Spencer and Ariana Greenblatt, all previously announced.

David Oyelowo has also been cast, joining a ensemble that rounds out with Drew Powell as Will and Max Cortezi as TFG. Ian Samuels directs from a screenplay by Gillian Williams and Paul Shoulberg.

Production was already underway in Bloomington, Indiana, where hundreds of local residents served as extras. That detail grounds the film not just narratively but geographically — it is being shot where the real race takes place.

For Curtin, the role adds another chapter to a career that stretches from Saturday Night Live in the show's original 1975 cast through Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun. She is represented by CAA. Her involvement in a period drama about a collegiate bicycle race is a left turn from the sitcom work most viewers know her for, and the Dean Weston role — a campus authority figure — positions her as a counterweight to the young racers at the story's centre.

Hathaway's Somewhere Pictures produces alongside Pigasus Pictures, a Bloomington-based production company whose local roots align with the film's Indiana setting. No release date has been announced.

The creative team behind Little Five — a first-person women's sports story rooted in a specific place and a specific moment in the early 1980s — now has its academic foil in place. With filming underway in Bloomington and a cast that mixes veteran presence with rising talent, the project moves closer to the screen.