{"id":2280056,"date":"2026-02-13T06:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2280056"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:44:29","slug":"jessica-gunning-set-to-play-mama-cass-in-veritas-entertainment-feature-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jessica-gunning-set-to-play-mama-cass-in-veritas-entertainment-feature-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Gunning set to play Mama Cass in Veritas Entertainment feature | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline_image inline_image_left image_size_med\" data-attachment=\"1472095\" data-sequence=\"1\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Baby Reindeer<\/em> co-star Jessica Gunning has been attached to play Cass Elliot in a feature about the sixties singer-songwriter and TV personality also known as Mama Cass.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Veritas Entertainment, which produced recent Bob Dylan biopic <em>A Complete Unknown<\/em>, has packaged the project, which is currently in development and being shopped to potential buyers and financiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The film will be based on <em>My Mama Cass<\/em>, the memoir by Elliot\u2019s surviving daughter Owen Elliot-Kugell. Novelist and screenwriter Emma Forrest is adapting the book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elliot had her first success as part of The Mamas &amp; The Papas, the late sixties vocal group that had hits including Monday, Monday and California Dreamin\u2019, and was a key figure in the Los Angeles music scene of the era.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from Veritas, however, the project \u201cis not a traditional Mamas &amp; the Papas biopic\u201d but will focus on Elliot\u2019s life, legacy and mother-daughter relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>British actress and writer Gunning won numerous honours for her performance opposite creator and star Richard Gadd in Netflix miniseries <em>Baby Reindeer<\/em>, among them the Bafta and Emmy supporting actor awards. She will next appear in Steven Soderbergh\u2019s Toronto premiere <em>The Christophers<\/em>, set for North American release in April by Neon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Veritas, run by partners Alan Gasmer and Peter Jaysen, is also known for such TV projects as BBC\/Starz series <em>Dublin Murders<\/em>, HBO movie <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em> and Apple TV+ series <em>The Mosquito Coast<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '1787080818148630');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '400707963055585');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\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.screendaily.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby Reindeer co-star Jessica Gunning has been attached to play Cass Elliot in a feature about the sixties singer-songwriter and TV personality also known as Mama Cass.\u00a0 Veritas Entertainment, which produced recent Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, has packaged the project, which is currently in development and being shopped to potential buyers and financiers.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2280057,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jessica-Gunning-set-to-play-Mama-Cass-in-Veritas-Entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280056","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=2280056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280058,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280056\/revisions\/2280058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}