Jason Segel Joins ‘Anxious People’ As Cameras Roll; Pic Is First To Use Pinewood Indie Film Hub
(DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/jason-segel-joins-angelina-jolie-aimee-lou-wood-in-anxious-1236504320/
EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear, Hope Studios, 2DUX2, and World Wide Word are underway in London on Anxious People, with Jason Segel joining the cast.
The three-time Emmy nominee joins Oscar winner Jolie and Bafta-winner Aimee Lou Wood in the feature adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s novel.
As we previously revealed, A Man Called Otto and World War Z director Marc Forster is helming from a script by Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Magee.
In Anxious People, “on the day before Christmas Eve, investment banker Zara begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a group of strangers at an open house. When a reluctant bank robber, Grace, inadvertently takes the group hostage, chaos and oversharing ensues, secrets are revealed, and literally nothing goes according to plan.”
Pic is being produced by Fredrik Wikström Nicastro of Hope Studios and Renée Wolfe of 2DUX2, with Marc Forster, David Magee, and Neda Backman executive-producing. World Wide Word, the newly formed financing entity of 2DUX2, and Black Bear provided financing for the film.
Black Bear is handling the international sales of the movie and WME Independent is repping domestically.
The production will be the first to use the newly launched Pinewood Indie Film Hub, a dedicated production facility for independent filmmakers at Pinewood Studios.
Segel stars in hit comedy series, Shrinking, which he co-writes and executive produces. Next, he will star in Jorma Taccone’s feature, Over Your Dead Body.
