Bobby Lee Boards Indie ‘The Throwback’; ‘Real Housewives of New York’s Leah McSweeney Finds First Film Role In ‘The Kill Room’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Bobby Lee (And Just Like That…) has signed on to star alongside Justina Machado, Will Sasso, Gregg Sulkin and Michelle Randolph in Mario Garcia’s feature directorial debut, The Throwback, which is currently in production in the Tampa Bay area.The indie comedy follows Kate (Machado) and Matt (Sasso), a married couple in full-blown midlife crisis who are thrown into further turmoil when the former, an underappreciated and stressed ‘supermom,’ suffers a post-traumatic breakdown during the holiday season, causing her to regress to her 19-year-old college party-girl self.
Lee will play an ad agency art director and longtime colleague of Sasso’s character Matt, who fancies himself a ladies’ man.
Garcia penned the script and is producing via his company Garcia Interactive, alongside Michael A. Alfieri of Miantri Films and Doug Fox.
Danielle Del is exec producing alongside Machado and Sterling Macer Jr.Lee is an actor, comedian and podcaster who recently starred on CBS’s Magnum P.I.
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