Juno Temple Leads Hoffman's 'Intimacy Party' Feature Debut — SkimNews
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- Juno Temple is set to lead "Intimacy Party," a high-concept ensemble rom-com written by Courtney Hoffman and Paul Kruse that marks Hoffman's feature directorial debut.
- "Intimacy Party" follows Cleo Kauffman, a woman who recreates the intimacy party where she met her fiancé, only to discover she fell for the wrong guest — a premise Hoffman said she drew from personal experience at a crossroads before falling for her best friend.
- The ensemble cast includes Richa Moorjani, Meredith Hagner, Michiel Huisman, Chris Pang, Brandon Kyle Goodman, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, and Patrick Renna, joining Temple for the LA production.
- The film is currently in production in Los Angeles with a California tax incentive, produced by Delirio Films' Christopher Leggett and Rafael Marmor, with Pasta & Tacos Productions' Amanda Massetti and Bri Hennessey as executive producers.
- Temple, a four-time Emmy nominee with three nods for Apple's Ted Lasso, can currently be seen reprising Keeley Jones in Season 4 and recently wrapped Apple's limited series The Husbands, adapted from Holly Gramazio's bestselling novel.
- Hoffman previously directed American Horror Stories' Season 3 finale for FX and is developing The Sisters of Scott County, a '70s trucker film starring Kaitlyn Dever; before filmmaking she was a costume designer with credits on Edgar Wright's Baby Driver and Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.
Why it matters: The casting hands Hoffman — who built her film career as a costume designer on Baby Driver and The Hateful Eight — a four-time Emmy nominee as her first feature lead, a textbook prestige-launch pairing. For Temple, the role slots neatly between Ted Lasso's farewell season and Apple's The Huslands, reinforcing her post-Lasso lane as a go-to for character-driven ensemble work.
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