This will be Jake Gyllenhaals first television project.Actor Jake Gyllenhaal is venturing into the television space with HBO series Lake Success.
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According to Variety, the 38-year-old actor will star in and executive produce the limited series which is based on the Gary Shteyngart novel of the same name.
Gyllenhaal will play Barry Cohen, a narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world hedge fund manager who flees his family, his past, and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption.
Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
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Shteyngart will be serving as a co-writer and a co-showrunner on the series along with Tom Spezialy.
The actor is executive producing the show with Riva Marker through their banner Nine Stories production banner.
“Garys novel is a beautifully executed character study highlighting the depth of human contradiction and complication, set against the timely backdrop of America today,” said Gyllenhaal and Marker iRead More – Source
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