Zoey Deutch has six movies coming out in less than a year. In July alone, she’ll star in two very different releases: Illumination’s animated blockbuster “Minions & Monsters” and Sony Pictures Classics’ more racy comedy, “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.”
The film by “Wet Hot American Summer” director David Wain follows the story of a woman whose fiancé actually exercises their “celebrity sex pass” agreement. The title was originally “I’ll Take the Hamm,” reflecting the heroine’s mission to then bed her own sex pass, the hunky “Mad Men” star, as payback.
“A girl goes to Hollywood to find Jon Hamm to have sex with him,” Deutch told Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” of the plot. “You have to watch the movie to see if I do have sex with Jon Hamm.”
The very first scene she shot with Hamm on the film’s set was in a hot air balloon, and Hamm, in black tie and white dinner jacket, was mysteriously on his phone.
“We’re like up in the air… a foot away from each other and he was on the phone,” Deutch recalled, thinking at the time, “Who could he be on the phone with? I don’t want to interrupt, must be important.” A month later she was scrolling on her own phone and noticed, “It was him on Amy Poehler‘s podcast, ‘Good Hang,’ in the hot air balloon.”
Weirdly, the only times that Deutch, 31— whose mom is “Back to the Future” star Lea Thompson — has been in a hot air balloon has been with “Top Gun” Maverick” film stars, after her rides with Hamm and, previously, Glen Powell (after they starred together in the 2018 movie “Set It Up”).
Deutch is also currently starring in Netflix’s “Voicemails for Isabelle,” which has a 91% approval rating from fans on Rotten Tomatoes. The release has even prompted the Internet to anoint the star as rom-com queen of 2026.