Emmy nominee D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Canine) has joined the solid of Darren Aronofsky‘s crime thriller Caught Stealing from Sony Photos, Deadline has confirmed.
Caught Stealing follows Hank Thompson (Austin Butler), a burned-out former baseball participant, as he’s unwittingly plunged right into a wild combat for survival within the downtown legal underworld of ’90s NYC. We hear Woon-A-Tai will play the position of Dale, Hank’s greatest pal since highschool.
In March, Deadline completely revealed the challenge, based mostly on the books by Charlie Huston, was within the works, with Butler set because the lead and Aronofsky as director. Huston penned the screenplay with Aronofsky’s Protozoa producing.
Along with Butler, Woon-A-Tai joins the beforehand introduced solid of Vincent D’Onofrio, Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Will Brill, Dangerous Bunny and Griffin Dunne.
Woon-A-Tai is a 22-year-old Oji-Cree First Nations coming off a busy Emmy season. The actor was nominated for Excellent Lead Actor in a Comedy Sequence for his breakout position in FX’s Reservation Canine, his first Emmy nom and the primary time a Native American has been nominated within the class. Moreover, he was nominated for 2 Critics Alternative Award nominations for his portrayal of Bear Smallhill.
He additionally just lately accomplished work in Warfare from Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland for A24 within the main position of Ray Mendoza. He labored reverse Cosmo Jarvis, Noah Centineo, Will Poulter, Charles Melton and Equipment Connor within the movie set for a 2025 launch.
Woon-A-Tai’s extra credit embrace the coming-of-age traumedy Becoming In reverse Emily Hampshire and Maddie Ziegler, and the indie thriller Solely the Good Survive, written and directed by Dutch Southern. He additionally starred in Hell of a Summer season alongside Finn Wolfhard and Fred Hechinger.
He’s repped by Gersh, David Dean Administration and The Characters (Canada).
