Riverdale’s Camila Mendes boards Windfall, Andy Samberg comedy Palm Springs
According to Deadline, Riverdale star Camila Mendes has joined the cast of Netflix’s Windfall, from director Michael Scott, and has also joined Andy Samberg and J.K. Simmons in the Max Barbakow-directed comedy Palm Springs.
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In Windfall, an original Netflix production written by David Golden and produced by Stephanie Slack and Margret H. Huddleston, Mendes will play a young woman named Katie, who abandons her personal dreams to support her husband, but quickly gets stuck in the middle of a criminal investigation.
Palm Springs, a light-hearted romp from writer Andy Siara that is being produced by Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Tccone and Becky Sloviter, according to the report, “follows carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah who, after have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, are unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.”
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Mendes will Sarah’s half-sister Tala, who is also the bride at the Palm Springs wedding.
Along with Riverdale, Mendes can be seen in the Netflix film The Perfect Date this Friday.