Théodore Pellerin Takes the Lead in Sundance Debut ‘Lurker’

Name: Théodore Pellerin Sundance project: Pellerin leads “Lurker,” the feature directorial debut for “The Bear” and “Beef” writer Alex Russell, as a young retail worker who befriends a music celebrity. Notable past credits: Last year he starred in “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld” as Lagerfeld’s former partner Jacques de Bascher; he also starred in the Apple TV+ miniseries “Franklin” and led the 2023 Toronto Film Festival film “Solo” as a young drag queen living in Montreal. Théodore Pellerin French Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin is the star of Alex Russell’s feature filmmaking debut “Lurker,” about a young retail worker in Los Angeles who finds himself increasingly enmeshed in an emerging pop star’s inner circle. “It’s a very entertaining and fun and hard movie,” says Pellerin. “Hard in the sense of it plays a lot with shame and humiliation,” he adds. “I thought Alex’s writing was so funny and heartbreaking at times. I just love the script.” Pellerin was cast in the lead role, the starstruck Matthew, four years earlier at the age of 23. Going from his early 20s to now late 20s over the course of getting the film changed the actor’s initial perspective on his character. “The L.A. music [industry] power hierarchy dynamics — as you get a bit older,

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