Connie Britton

Bill Hader, Donald Glover, Andy Samberg, and Aubrey Plaza Line Up for The Hand Job

In a recent interview with Collider, Saturday Night Live and Paul actor Bill Hader discussed his upcoming projects for his summer hiatus from SNL, one of which is The Hand Job, a script written and to be directed by his wife, Maggie Carey (Chasing the Dream), and with Aubrey Plaza (NBC's Parks and Recreation) in the lead role. Hader revealed that the indie comedy is "trying to get their funding together" but has already attracted a large cast of comedic actors.

It’s a really cool movie. The cast for that is great. It’s got Aubrey Plaza, me, Andy Samberg (SNL), Donald Glover (NBC's Community), Connie Britton (Women in Trouble), Alia Shawkat (Whip It), Mae Whitman (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), and Johnny Simmons (Scott Pilgrim) is attached to it. It’s a really cool movie that is insanely funny. We did a reading of it at the Austin Film Festival and it just blew the roof off of the place. People went nuts for it. I really hope that happens.

• Bill Hader
• Maggie Carey
• Aubrey Plaza
• Andy Samberg
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse
• Connie Britton
• Donald Glover
• Alia Shawkat
• Mae Whitman
• Johnny Simmons
• Jessica Alba
• Colin Hanks
• D.C. Pierson
• Dominic Dierkes
• Scott Porter

Rob Zombie Pushed Connie Britton to Play Elm Street Mom

Connie Britton is not known for horror movies. In fact, the Friday Night Lights actress told the NY Post that it took Rob Zombie and the casting of Jackie Early Haley to convince her to take a role in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the remake of Wes Craven's 1984 horror movie — a movie Britton admits she's only seen parts of.

I've known Rob Zombie for a long time and he's always been telling me, "Connie, you gotta make a horror movie!" But I was still too chicken. But when I heard Jackie Earle Haley was doing Freddy, I thought that this was the time. But in retrospect, now that I've seen a good part of the original, it made no difference because what we do in the new one is so substantially different.

Britton is playing the mother of heroine Nancy (Rooney Mara), but isn't sure that her role is as strong in the remake as it was in the original.

The truth is, I don't think the role is as well represented in the movie as it could have been. My sense is that the focus won't be on my character as much as I previously thought, but we'll see.

We have a feeling that the focus will likely be on Freddy hunting down Nancy, but that's just us.

• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Friday Night Lights
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Connie Britton
• Rob Zombie