Deadline brings word that Golden Globe winner Awkwafina (The Farewell, Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens) is set to join Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult in Universal Pictures horror comedy Renfield.
Hoult will play Renfield, the familiar henchman of Dracula, who will be portrayed by Nicolas Cage.
No details have been released confirming what role Awkwafina will be playing in the monster flick, which was previously reported as being set in the present day.
Awkwafina most recently appeared on the big screen in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.