Chase Infiniti Confirmed as Movie Star in 'The Julia Set' — SkimNews
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- 'The Julia Set' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, written and directed by Niki Byrne in her second dramatic feature
- Chase Infiniti stars as math prodigy Julia Fischer — her first film since playing Leonardo DiCaprio's daughter in 'One Battle After Another'
- Christopher Briney plays Pascal, Julia's TA and love interest whose competitive streak and gaslighting drive the film's bad-romance arc
- The Putnam Competition — a 12-question test the review describes as the hardest math test ever devised, running for roughly 100 years — anchors the film's dramatic stakes
- Julia turned down admissions to MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago to attend her local college on a scholarship and stay near her family, including a brother with Down syndrome
- Supporting cast includes Nina Hoss as a stern study-group leader, Jason Isaacs as Pascal's narcissistic mathematician father, Gillian Anderson as his mother, and Carmen Ejogo as Julia's mother
Why it matters: Infiniti lands a leading role in a serious dramatic feature within a year of her breakthrough, and Byrne gets a stamp of approval as a writer-director to watch — meaning two careers worth tracking are now bookended to one TIFF title. The film also marks a rare theatrical attempt to portray a female math genius as a full dramatic protagonist rather than biopic subject.
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