Aisling Bea and Kate Hudson to star in rom-com inspired by Nora Ephron classics

Aisling Bea has announced her latest project

The Irish actress and comedian has joined the cast of Hello & Paris, which is loosely inspired by Deborah McKinlay's book, That Part Was True.

Kate Hudson will play the lead in the Elizabeth Chomnko rom-com. Javier Bardem and Steve Zahn will also star.

The movie's synopsis reads:

“After a prickly first encounter in Paris, a fiercely independent landscape architect and a crisis-ridden bestselling novelist begin a sparky, transatlantic exchange over books and recipes—only to discover that the one thing harder than being alone might be choosing not to be”.

Speaking about the project, Aisling Bea said, "We are currently filming this gorgeous rom-com & having a very lovely time & the food is very good & the film is even better than the food."

Kate Hudson's rom-coms have never let us down, and having Aisling Bea on board will only make this project all the better.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Phil Dunster, Gemma Chan, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste will also star.

What is That Part Was True by Deborah McKinlay about?

When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food.

Their friendship blossoms against the backdrop of Jackson's colorful, but ultimately unsatisfying, love life and Eve's tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter.

As each of them offers, from behind the veils of semi-anonymity and distance, wise and increasingly affectionate counsel to the other, they both begin to confront their problems and plan a celebratory meeting in Paris--a meeting that Eve fears can never happen.