{"id":2250341,"date":"2026-01-26T01:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250341"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:40:57","slug":"will-poulter-and-adam-meeks-discovered-something-about-addiction-by-using-non-actors-in-sundance-drama-union-county-it-blew-me-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/will-poulter-and-adam-meeks-discovered-something-about-addiction-by-using-non-actors-in-sundance-drama-union-county-it-blew-me-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Poulter and Adam Meeks Discovered Something About Addiction by Using Non-Actors in Sundance Drama \u2018Union County\u2019: \u201cIt Blew Me Away\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5940308\/\">Adam Meeks<\/a> is living a dream Sundance experience \u2014 long before he arrived in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn-based writer-director and graduate of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0372422\/\">NYU<\/a>\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts made his feature directorial debut on the indie drama <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt36981462\/\">Union County<\/a> and promptly received what could be the best news of his career thus far: He got into the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City. Union County is adapted from his own short film of the same name (which had a world premiere in Berlin) and follows a young man, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11884300\/\">Cody Parsons<\/a>, through a county-mandated drug court program in rural Ohio as he walks a winding path of recovery amid the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Addiction, and the opioid crisis, has been well-documented on screen but Meeks and his Union County team bring something fresh to the genre courtesy of the real-life participants of the Ohio drug court and its presiding judge, all of whom appear throughout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Meeks is living a dream Sundance experience \u2014 long before he arrived in Utah. The Brooklyn-based writer-director and graduate of NYU\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts made his feature directorial debut on the indie drama Union County and promptly received what could be the best news of his career thus far: He got into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2250341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Will-Poulter-and-Adam-Meeks-Discovered-Something-About-Addiction-by.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250343,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250341\/revisions\/2250343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}