Jamie Bell has spent a long time just on the edge of breaking big, with everyone agreeing he’s a good actor, but he never gets the part that tips him into full-on movie stardom. His best chance was the title role in Tintin, but of course he wasn’t recognisable in that.
Now he’s taking the lead opposite Kate Mara (Brokeback Mountain) in a new ‘quirky’ rom com called Fighting Jacob,which Variety reports will be the feature directorial debut of Charlie McDowell. Bell will play the title character, Jacob ‘The Manic Maniac’ Rosenthal, an up and coming boxer who has extreme OCD, which is oddly enough the key to his success in the ring. Then he has a devastating break-up with Mara’s character, which forces him to re-evaluate his life and decide whether he can be truly happy being neurotic and a top fighter, but having his OCD affect his private life massively.
The movie is due to shoot this summer in LA.
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