Per the logline for the movie, Zegler will star as a bride-to-be who ends up tracking down her “pill-popping, ex-punk rocker birth mother,” played by Tomei. The synopsis goes on to promise “YouTube is packed with tearful family reunions, but nobody films the messy aftermath.”
Zegler is coming off of the frankly brutal press cycle surrounding Snow White, which bombed in theaters, failing to make back the enormous sums the company spent on it. The whole thing was really a perfect storm of headlines overwhelming a movie that critics were already holding up as aggressively mediocre: Zegler’s vocal critiques of Donald Trump, alleged tensions with co-star Gal Gadot, and the public’s general exhaustion with the Disney remake machine. (Lots of viewers did agree that Zegler’s performance as the princess was a rare note of charisma amidst the CGI sludge, though.)
Tomei, for her part, has been working steadily per usual, most recently logging a co-starring role in Marco Calvani’s High Tide. It’s easy to imagine her having fun as the wild side of She Gets It From Me‘s mother-daughter pair; the film is being pitched as a comedy-drama, so presumably she’ll also be called on to portray the less fun parts of the “fun mom” package. The film (described as a “true story,” albeit with no other details forthcoming) is being directed by Julia von Heinz, whose 2024 film Treasure tossed Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry together as another contentious family pair.
