Taylor Zakhar Perez is 13 going on 30…
The 34-year-old part-Mexican American actor has joined the cast of Netflix’s 13 Going on 30 reboot.
Zakhar Perez is part of a roster of new cast additions that includes Owen Thiele, Nasim Pedrad, Supriya Ganesh and Myra Molloy.
Other newcomers include Charley McCain, Henry Samiri, Audrina Miranda and Kai Zen.
Emily Bader and Logan Lerman lead the cast, which also includes Adeline Rudolph, Jessica Alba, Taylor Ortega,Tim Meadows and Dan Bucatinsky.
The original film’s stars, Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer, will reportedly appear in the reboot.
No word yet on the sequel’s plot. Production kicked off in L.A. last month.
A 2004 rom-com from Columbia Pictures, 13 Going on 30 centers on a 13-year-old girl who magically wakes up as her 30-year-old self and must navigate adulthood while rediscovering who she really is. Garner played the grown-up version of the character, starring opposite Mark Ruffalo in the film from Gary Winick, with Greer playing her frenemy Lucy Wyman.
13 Going on 30 grossed roughly $96 million in theaters and has endured for decades as a cultural touchstone, making a reboot inevitable.
Already, Garner has executive produced a stage musical adaptation that premiered at the Manchester Opera House last fall. Original screenwriters Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa penned the book for the stage adaptation, which features original songs by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.
Brett Haley is directing the feature reboot from a script by Hannah Marks, with revisions by Flora Greeson.
