{"id":31364,"date":"2025-09-04T02:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31364"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:52:12","slug":"the-threesome-exclusive-interview-with-director-chad-hartigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31364","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Threesome&#8221; Exclusive Interview with Director Chad Hartigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\">Check out more of Our YouTube Channel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/strong> grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on\u00a0<a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">TV<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31365\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Threesome-Poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Threesome-Poster.png 846w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Threesome-Poster-186x300.png 186w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Threesome-Poster-635x1024.png 635w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Threesome-Poster-768x1238.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Threesome-Poster-696x1122.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Threesome<\/strong> : One fateful night, the stars appear to align for Connor (Jonah Hauer-King), a kind and unassuming young man, as his irreverent long-time crush Olivia (Zoey Deutch) steers them into a threesome with alluring stranger Jenny (Ruby Cruz). The encounter sparks a relationship between Connor and Olivia and their love grows quickly, all the way toward planning a life together. But their happy romance is soon demolished when Jenny reappears in their lives, thrusting all three into a difficult and messy journey towards true accountability and adulthood.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong> : Chad Hartigan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong> : Vince Jolivette, Tim White, Trevor White, Steve Shapiro<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong> : Ethan Ogilby<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributor<\/strong> : Vertical<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Co<\/strong> : Star Thrower, Filmopoly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating<\/strong> : R (Brief Drug Use|Sexual Material|Language)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong> : Romance, Comedy, Drama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong> : Sep 5, 2025, Limited<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime<\/strong> :1h 52m<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like the interview, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Mafhm2_5Pzc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Threesome | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mafhm2_5Pzc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out more of Our YouTube Channel\u00a0 Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on\u00a0\u00a0TV\u00a0Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,20471],"tags":[28280,28281,15226,12957,28279,28275,28277,28278,10471,28276,10027],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Threesome&quot; Exclusive Interview with Director Chad Hartigan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Threesome : A young man&#039;s perennial crush leads him into an unexpected threesome, he thinks it&#039;s his ultimate fantasy come true. 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