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- Dave Franco Says He's 'Open' to Playing Luigi Mangione If the 'Right People' Are Involved</p>
<p>Jen JuneauAugust 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM</p>
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<p>Dave Franco on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Aug. 5, 2025; Luigi Mangione in New York City on Dec. 23, 2024</p>
<p>Dave Franco addressed whether he'd be open to play Luigi Mangione in a biopic during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Tuesday, Aug. 5</p>
<p>"Let's just say I'm open, if the right people [are involved]," the Together star answered a fan who called in and asked about it</p>
<p>"No one has approached me about it yet, I'll say that," Franco also said</p>
<p>Dave Franco isn't against the idea of potentially playing Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, onscreen — but it would have to be the right fit.</p>
<p>The Together actor appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Tuesday, Aug. 5, when a fan called in and asked him, "Since the entire internet want(s) you to play Luigi Mangione in a movie ... would you want to play him in a biopic if it was offered to you?"</p>
<p>"Oh, how do I answer this?" began Franco, 40, who visited the show with wife and Together costar Alison Brie. "No one has approached me about it yet, I'll say that."</p>
<p>"This is something that more people in my life reached out about this exact thing than anything else that has ever happened," he said, laughing. "Let's just say I'm open, if the right people [are involved], and let's leave it at that."</p>
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<p>After Mangione, 27, was arrested in Altoona, Pa., on Dec. 9, 2024 — days after Thompson's fatal Dec. 4 shooting outside of a New York City hotel — Franco became the subject of multiple viral posts on X and beyond, with his name ultimately trending on the platform.</p>
<p>And as he told The Hollywood Reporter at the Sundance Film Festival in January, he was well aware of fans comparing his appearance to Mangione's.</p>
<p>"I have never received more texts in my life about anything," Franco said in an interview published Jan. 25. "Not just friends ... anyone who has my phone number has reached out about it."</p>
<p>Internet users weren't the only ones pointing out the apparent resemblance between Franco and Mangione. Since his arrest, the alleged gunman has also been the subject of references on Saturday Night Live, including in a December sketch where Sarah Sherman appeared as Nancy Grace as she attempted to explain how Mangione had "women and gay guys alike all hot and bothered."</p>
<p>In the sketch, Sherman's Grace joked that Mangione "looks like Dave Franco with Eugene Levy eyebrows."</p>
<p>The remainder of the sketch also featured Kenan Thompson as Donnell Davis — a character who was "at the McDonald's" where Mangione was apprehended in Pennsylvania — as well as a "guy who happens to look like Luigi Mangione."</p>
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<p>Dave Franco in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 24, 2025; Luigi Mangione in New York City on Dec. 23, 2024</p>
<p>For now, Franco is focused on promoting his and Brie's new horror flick Together, which follows the pair as an an engaged couple who moves away from the city and into a remote forest cottage for a bit of a restart — only to be faced with unimaginable horrors.</p>
<p>When asked about "the craziest thing" the couple did together during filming, Franco told PEOPLE at the movie's Los Angeles premiere on July 23, "Other than being attached with the prosthetic for 10 hours and forcing the other one to go to the bathroom with us?"</p>
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<p>"I think that was the craziest thing," added Brie, 42. "Obviously we've peed in front of each other before."</p>
<p>"Sure. But never that closely," Franco responded, to which his wife of eight years added, "But not while touching skin to skin. That's a rarity, yes."</p>
<p>Together is in theaters now.</p>
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