Jean Smart Joins Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’ With Brad Pitt

It actually is the yr of Jean Smart. The “Hacks” and “Mare of Easttown” star has joined the already staggering solid of “Babylon,” Damien Chazelle’s Old Hollywood epic that stars Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, a person with information instructed TheWrap.

Plot particulars for “Babylon” are nonetheless being saved below wraps, as are Smart’s character particulars, however THR is noting that Smart is anticipated to play a Hollywood journalist and movie critic with the facility to make or break careers.

Paramount’s “Babylon” is capturing now in Los Angeles, and the movie final month rounded out its solid with a formidable lineup that features Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Katherine Waterston, Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, Flea, Rory Scovel, Samara Weaving, Eric Roberts, P.J. Byrne, Damon Gupton, Olivia Wilde, Spike Jonze, Phoebe Tonkin and Tobey Maguire.

Chazelle is directing and wrote the script as his follow-up to “First Man” and “La La Land.” Olivia Hamilton, Matt Plouffe and Marc Platt will produce. Tobey Maguire, Helen Estabrook and Adam Siegel will government produce.

Paramount has set the discharge date for “Babylon” on Christmas Day 2022 adopted by a large launch on Jan. 6, 2023.

Jean Smart is a frontrunner for the Emmy nominations dropping Tuesday morning on behalf of her work in “Hacks” on HBO Max and likewise for her work in HBO’s “Mare of Easttown.” On “Hacks,” she performs a veteran Vegas comic with a pointy tongue who’s making an attempt to revitalize her profession by working with a younger author, and Smart herself is having one thing of a profession comeback after first coming to fame in “Designing Women” and for her position on “24.”

Smart is represented by WME and Untitled.

THR first reported the information.