Paramount Pictures has chosen Jon Bass to play the comic relief in their upcoming Baywatch movie, according to Variety.
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Bass is playing Ronnie, “who’s described as funny, awkward and a skilled disco dancer. He falls in love with Rohrbach’sC.J. Parker (being played by Kelly Rohrbach) character at the beach.”
Bass guest starred on House of Lies, The Newsroom and Girls, and was a series regular on Comedy Central’s Big Time in Hollywood, FL.
The film adaptation of the popular television series, which ran from 1989 to 1999, is intended to be a raunchy comedy with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson starring as Mitch Buchannon, Alexandra Daddario as Summer and Zac Efron as a disgraced former Olympic swimmer.
Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses, Identity Theft) is directing the film, based on a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift.
