Who Is In The Windfall Cast? A Guide - Netflix Tudum
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Netflix’s new Hitchcockian thriller Windfall stars three actors you’ve definitely seen before — and perhaps even in the same movie together. But first, the scene: The film follows a series of (unfortunate) events that transpire when a robber is caught burgling a billionaire CEO’s idyllic vacation home. When the tech mogul and his wife show up unexpectedly for a weekend away, the robber’s plan goes awry. Windfall was directed by Charlie McDowell and based on a story by McDowell and his leading actor, Jason Segel, and screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker and Justin Lader.
Segel stars alongside The Power of the Dog’s Jesse Plemons in their second Charlie McDowell film — the two appear in his 2017 sci-fi thriller The Discovery — and Netflix leading lady Lily Collins, aka Emily in Paris herself. Read on to find out more about the film, which, in a taut 90 minutes, explores class, power and the relationship dynamics between the three main stars. Windfall premieres March 18 on Netflix.
Jesse Plemons (CEO)
The Oscar-nominated star leads this ensemble, starring as an extremely rich (read: billionaire) CEO who heads to his impressive California vacation home for a weekend getaway with his wife. Plemons’ character is used to getting his way, so he’s not as threatened by the robber he encounters in his home as he probably should be. But he plays along, despite the fact that he doesn’t think much of the intruder.
In addition to his role as rancher George Burbank in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, you can catch Plemons in series like Friday Night Lights and Fargo and in films as varied as Game Night and Martin Scorsese’s epic Netflix film The Irishman. Oh, and he’s also the partner to fellow Netflix star and Oscar nominee Kirsten Dunst.
Lily Collins (Wife)
A philanthropist at heart, the CEO’s wife is the grounded, realistic half of the homeowner couple. While being unexpectedly robbed, she’s seemingly sympathetic to the robber’s plight and open to offering up a deal so they can all escape the situation unharmed. But the ordeal makes her consider the life choices she’s made that have brought her to this point.
You know Collins as the social media maven lead in Emily in Paris, but you’ve also seen her in everything from Netflix originals Okja and Mank to big-screen adventure The Mortal Instruments. This is her first on-screen collaboration with husband McDowell, but we’re predicting it won’t be the last.
You can follow Collins on Twitter @lilycollins and on Instagram @lilyjcollins.
Jason Segel (Nobody)
When we first meet Segel’s character, he’s enjoying a glass of orange juice on the patio of a beautiful home — only we quickly learn the home isn’t his, and that he’s in the process of robbing it when the homeowners arrive for a weekend stay. Downsized from one of the billionaire’s companies, Nobody’s revenge turns far more serious than he’d initially intended (you know, accidental hostage situations will do that to you).
Segel, who created the AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere, is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother and his hit film Forgetting Sarah Marshall (featuring Kristen Bell, star of Netflix’s recent satire The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window). In addition to Segel and McDowell’s collaboration on The Discovery, the duo also worked together when McDowell helmed the season finale of Dispatches from Elsewhere.
You can follow Segel on Twitter @jasonsegel.
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