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Exclusive: Actor Jack Dylan Grazer (Shazam! franchise) has signed with UTA for representation in all areas, departing WME after about six months with the agency.

Grazer will next be seen on the film side in Focus Features’ Dreamin’ Wild alongside Zooey Deschanel and Walton Goggins. He’s also set to reprise his role as Freddy Freeman from New Line’s DC film Shazam! in its sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which is slated for release via Warner Bros. on December 21.

Grazer voiced the lead role of Barney in 20th Century Studios’ Ron Gone Wrong, as well as the role of Alberto in Pixar’s Luca, which earned him an Annie Awards nomination for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature. Previously, he starred opposite Rainn Wilson and Mena Suvari in the indie thriller Don’t Tell a Soul, which premiered virtually at the Tribeca Film Festival, and...

This HBO show feels less like a limited series than a mini-series, with a set ending. Still, if there's enough interest, could We Are Who We Are be renewed for season two anyway? Stay tuned. Status Update Below.

A dramatic series from Luca Guadagnino, We Are Who We Are stars Chloë Sevigny, Jack Dylan Grazer, Alice Braga, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Spence Moore II, Kid Cudi, Faith Alabi, Francesca Scorsese, Ben Taylor, Corey Knight, Tom Mercier, and Sebastiano Pigazzi. The story follows two American kids who live on a United States military base in Italy. The series explores friendship, first-love, identity, and all of the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager. Shy and introverted, fourteen-year-old Fraser Wilson (Grazer) moves from New York to a military base in Veneto with his mothers, Sarah (Sevigny) and Maggie (Braga), who are both...

The story of Fraser and Caitlin appears to be over. While the We Are Who We Are TV show isn't exactly cancelled, HBO has confirmed that there's no second season in the works. However, the show's creator wants to make more.

A dramatic series from Luca Guadagnino, We Are Who We Are stars Chloë Sevigny, Jack Dylan Grazer, Alice Braga, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Spence Moore II, Kid Cudi, Faith Alabi, Francesca Scorsese, Ben Taylor, Corey Knight, Tom Mercier, and Sebastiano Pigazzi. The story follows two American kids who live on a United States military base in Italy. The series explores friendship, first love, identity, and all of the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager. Shy and introverted, fourteen-year-old Fraser Wilson (Grazer) moves from New York to a military base in Veneto with his mothers, Sarah (Sevigny) and Maggie...

Not to be confused with the Mexican horror film and the American remake of the same name, We Are Who We Are is an 8-part HBO miniseries that aired its finale episode on November 2, 2020. Directed by Call Me By Your Name's Luca Guadagnino, the coming-of-age series centers on Fraser Wilson (Jack Dylan Grazer) and Caitlin Poythress (Jordan Kristine Seamon), two 14-year-old Americans growing up on an army base in Chioggia, Italy.

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Also starring Chloe Sevigny, Alice Braga, Kid Cudi, and Francesca Scorsese, We Are Who We Are currently holds an 86% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Scroll below to see how each episode has fared on IMDb.

Adolescence is already an unpleasant tornado of emotions, hormones and confusion about one’s identity. And none of that improves when you add in the unique experience of uprooting your life and moving to a military base in Europe.

Those are the circumstances that teenager Fraser Wilson finds himself in during the premiere of HBO’s We Are Who We Are, an eight-episode miniseries co-created by Call Me by Your Name auteur Luca Guadagnino. Before you tell us what you thought of Monday’s premiere, let’s break down what happened in Episode 1:

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“Call Me by Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino is moving to TV with “We Are Who We Are,” and the upcoming HBO drama has released its first trailer on Sunday.

The limited series stars Jack Dylan Grazer, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga, Kid Cudi and Jordan Kristine Seamon, who makes her acting debut in the series.

The eight-episode show explores the upbringing of 14-year-old Fraser Wilson (Grazer), who moves from New York to a military base in Veneto, Italy, with his mothers, Sarah (Sevigny) and Maggie (Braga), who are both in the U.S. Army. Fraser gets into frequent arguments with Sarah, saying at one point in the trailer, “After all these years, I still don’t know if I hate you or not.”

Fraser develops a close friendship with Caitlin Harper (Seamon), who has lived on the military base for several years with her father (Cudi) and brother. She looks up to Sarah,...

Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga, Grammy-winning rapper Kid Cudi, Jack Dylan Grazer and Tom Mercier, who made a splash as the lead of Berlin Golden Bear-winner “Synonymes,” are among the key cast announced by HBO for Luca Guadagnino’s first TV series, “We Are Who We Are.”

The “Call Me by Your Name” director is set to start shooting this month on the eight-part HBO-Sky original, which centers on a group of American teenagers living on a U.S. military base in Italy.

Other cast members with main roles are singer-songwriter Jordan Kristine Seamon, actor Spence Moore II (“Five Points”), Corey Knight, Francesca Scorsese, Sebastiano Pigazzi, and Ben Taylor, who are all young U.S. artists. British stage actress Faith Alabi also stars.

Guadagnino is serving as showrunner and director on “We Are Who We Are,” which HBO described as a coming-of-age story about two American youths that looks at “friendship,...

Luca Guadagnino is set to start shooting his first TV series, “We Are Who We Are,” for HBO and Sky, “in a couple of weeks,” the director of “Call Me by Your Name” told Variety. Guadagnino is currently in Cannes with his star-studded short “The Staggering Girl,” which world-premieres Friday in Directors’ Fortnight.

“We Are Who We Are” will focus on “a group of American teenagers on a U.S. military base in Italy,” Guadagnino said, particularly two 14 year olds, a boy and a girl named Fraser Wilson and Caitlin Harper. The two become close amid their posse of teenage friends, who think they’re a couple. But Fraser is experiencing confusing feelings about his identity and develops an innocent romantic connection with an older soldier.

“All the characters are from the U.S.,” Guadagnino said. Casting was done in Los Angeles, London, Africa and Italy.

The eight-episode show will...

Those hoping the filmmaker, Luca Guadagnino would be concentrating on the ‘Call Me By Your Name’ sequel will have to wait a little longer the ‘Suspira’ filmmaker is heading to HBO to get behind their new series ‘We Are Who We Are’.

As well as directing the first two episodes and the finale, Guadagnino is writing the project alongside Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri.

The single-hour, eight-episode series will be set on an army base in Italy and tell the story of two 14-year-olds named Fraser Wilson and Caitlin Harper.

Fraser is a detached teenager who hails from New York City who ends up moving to an Italian army base with his family due to a reposting while also experiencing his own confusing feelings about his identity. Becoming close to Caitlin the two embark on a period of self-discovery over the golden summer. Their friends think that he and Caitlin are a couple,...