EXCLUSIVE: Daveed Diggs (Nickel Boys), Mason Gooding (Scream), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Johnny Knoxville (Jackass), and stand-up comedian and actress Margaret Cho (All That We Love) will round out the cast of I Want Your Sex, Gregg Araki’s Black Bear thriller starring Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman and Charli XCX, which has wrapped production in Los Angeles.
Details as to the roles to be played by the quintet are under wraps. A provocative film blithely exploring desire, domination, and fantasy, I Want Your Sex asks, how far is too far? When fresh-faced Elliot (Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder.
Karley Sciortino & Araki wrote the script. Seth Caplan produces alongside Araki, Sciortino, and Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler. John Friedberg, Joanne Roberts Wiles, and Courtney L. Cunniff serve as exec producers for Black Bear, which has fully financed the picture and reps international rights, with CAA Media Finance handling U.S. Arlie Day and Mike Page cast the picture and are associate producers.
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A Tony winner and Emmy nominee, Diggs has most recently been seen starring on Snowpiercer, which wrapped up its fourth and final season in September. He appears in RaMell Ross’s drama Nickel Boys, based on the novel by Colson Whitehead, which releases via Amazon MGM Studios on December 13, and will also soon be seen in Searchlight’s In the Blink of an Eye, along with indies Magic Hour and A Tree Fell in the Woods.
An actor to watch, Gooding is known for starring in multiple Scream films, as well as titles like Prime Video’s starry rom-com I Want You Back and Olivia Wilde’s hit comedy Booksmart. He also starred in Hulu and Disney+’s Love, Simon series and will soon be seen in A24’s Y2K and Spyglass’s genre-bender Heart Eyes.
In addition to series like Generation and City on Fire, Wonders has been seen in On the Rocks, Bodies Bodies Bodies and other films. Notable upcoming projects include Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen’s comedy The Studio and Amazon MGM Studios’ I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot.
Best known for his work on the Jackass franchise, Knoxville is coming off of roles in indies like Sweet Dreams and Mainstream. Next, he’ll be seen starring alongside Paul Walter Hauser in game show scandal drama The Luckiest Man in America, which world premiered at TIFF.
An Emmy nominee, Cho’s recently been seen in films like Prom Pact, Cora Bora, The Listener and Fire Island. Additionally, she’s put in appearances on such series as Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Doctor Odyssey.
Diggs is represented by CAA, Brookside Artist Management, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Gooding by CAA, Sugar23, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Wonders by UTA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Knoxville by CAA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; and Cho by WME, Sarah Martin, and Fox Rothschild.
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