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Broadway star Hunter Parrish of the Tony Award winning “Spring Awakening,” has joined the cast of Paper Man. A comedy about the coming-of-middle-age that chronicles the unlikely friendship between a failed author (Jeff Daniels) and a Long Island high school girl (Emma Stone) who teaches him about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and imaginary superhero friend according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Parrish takes on the role of the girl’s 18-year-old working-class boyfriend. Ryan Reynolds and Lisa Kudrow are also in the cast. Parrish can be seen on Showtime’s “Weeds’ and opposite Zac Efron in 17 Again.

From Variety comes word that Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Daniels and Lisa Kudrow have joined the cast of Paper Man.

The movie follows the unlikely friendship between a failed author and a Long Island teen. It marks the directing debut of Kieran and Michele Mulroney.

Shooting is set to begin November 12 in New York and Montauk.