Amazon MGM's romantic comedy 'Love Love' adds five to cast as production rolls
Amazon MGM Studios has added five new faces to its romantic comedy Love Love, which is already in front of cameras. Desmond Chiam, Mary Beth Barone, Kam Patterson, Stephen Schneider, and Lev Gorn have joined the cast, according to Deadline (Deadline).
The film centres on a struggling tennis phenom who falls for a charismatic local ball boy at the US Open. Isabel May and Tyriq Withers lead the cast. Also aboard in previously announced roles are Adeline Rudolph, Audra McDonald, and Dylan McDermott.
Joey Power directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Daniel Sweren-Becker. Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum of RK Films produce alongside Ari Lubet and Jonathan Berry of 3 Arts Entertainment. Power, Withers, May, and Alyssa Altman serve as executive producers.
The five new additions bring a mix of film and television credits. Desmond Chiam appeared in Netflix's You, Always and the upcoming Mortal Kombat II, in which Karl Urban leads as Johnny Cage. Chiam also recurred as Jethro, Carly's boyfriend, in the Starz series Now Apocalypse (Deadline, 2018).
Mary Beth Barone's debut stand-up special Galaxy Brain premiered on Netflix on 28 July. She played Grace in the Prime Video series Overcompensating. Kam Patterson, a current cast member on Saturday Night Live, made his feature film debut in Netflix's 72 HOURS. Stephen Schneider is best known for roles in The Righteous Gemstones and Broad City. Lev Gorn's credits include FX's The Americans and HBO's The Wire.
Tyriq Withers, who stars opposite May in Love Love, previously appeared in the film Reminders of Him (Deadline).
No release date has been announced. Amazon MGM has not yet confirmed whether the film will receive a theatrical run or debut directly on Prime Video, the studio's streaming platform.
What makes the project one to watch is the producing pedigree. Joe Roth has been behind some of the most commercially successful films in Hollywood history, and his partnership with Jeff Kirschenbaum at RK Films has yielded a string of hits. Their involvement signals that Amazon MGM sees Love Love as more than a streaming title — the kind of romantic comedy that could, if the theatrical window holds, play to summer or holiday crowds before landing on the platform. For fans of the genre, a tennis-court romance produced at that scale is a rarity in the current market.
