'Enigma Variations': Jeremy Allen White to Star in Bisexual Romance Limited Series at Netflix
Jeremy Allen White is taking on a new project.
The 33-year-old star of The Bear is attached to star in and executive produce a Netflix limited series adaptation of the André Aciman novel Enigma Variations, Variety reports.
The project is currently in development. If it moves forward, this would be the second screen adaptation of the author’s novels, following Call Me by Your Name, which became an acclaimed film with Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
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Amanda Kate Shulman is attached as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. with Oliver Hermanus set to direct and executive produce.
Jeremy will star as the main character, Paul.
Here’s an official description of the novel: “Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men—whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later, we discover who we’ve always known we were.”