Fresh off his successful run on Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, Justin H. Min is set to star in Jason Biggs’ directorial debut, Getaway. The action-comedy, currently filming in Canada, also features Meaghan Rath, Arturo Castro, and Anna Konkle.
Biggs, known for his roles in the American Pie franchise and Orange Is the New Black, will both direct and star in the film as Kevin Stanwell, an actor struggling to save his marriage.
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In an attempt to rekindle the romance with his wife Suzie (Rath), Kevin plans a trip to the Adirondacks and enlists the help of his friend Ernie (Castro) to stage a fake home invasion. However, the plan backfires, leading the couple into a murder investigation.
In a statement to Deadline, Biggs expressed his excitement about the project: “I am absolutely thrilled to be making my directorial debut with the genre-bending Getaway, in partnership with Brad Krevoy and MPCA, Charles Cohen, and an incredible cast led by Meaghan Rath, Anna Konkle, Justin Min and Arturo Castro. When I first read the script from Jamie and Joshua, I knew that it would be an exciting challenge to bring this unique story to life, and I’m grateful to be involved.”
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Min, a Cornell University graduate with degrees in government and English, initially explored law and journalism before deciding to pursue acting.
“I studied Law and English and government, which was really political science. I thought I would go into law and the only reason was because I liked making speeches. But then I interned for a few law firms and hated it,” he explained to Variety
“I loved writing and I ended up going on a bunch of trips with various nonprofit organizations and international development organizations to document the things that were happening and I was experiencing and bring those stories back home. The idea was they could hopefully get more money for their organization. I realized the power of the story because I would just sit there in the field and listen to these stories.”
“I ended up working for a couple magazines after college, thinking that was my path. But lo and behold, I realized I didn’t have the patience for it. I was doing profiles on the lobster fest in town and the local distillery and that’s great, some people can love that and do it. But I didn’t have the patience to be assigned these things I was not super passionate about and to work at a job for seven or eight years until hopefully a position opened up where I could pitch my stories. So I gave it all up, moved back to Los Angeles, and had an existential crisis. In the midst of that funk and depression, I stumbled upon acting.”
