Harvey Keitel will be a Little Focker

Harvey Keitel will be a Little Focker

Nov 12

THR reports that Mr. White, The Wolf, The Man himself Harvey Keitel will be joining the cast of Little Fockers, the second sequel to Meet The Parents (2000). Keitel will join cast members Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert DeNiro, Blythe Danner, Owen Wilson, Jessica Alba (yow!) and Laura Dern.

In it’s own special and weird way, Meet The Parents was painfully funny as required. If you were to compile a list of funnies for the past decade (and hey that’s not a bad idea…) then Meet The Parents would be on it.

While it got panned while still turning a profit, I still found the lesser sequel Meet The Fockers quite funny and entertaining– thanks largely in part to Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman’s comedic imbalance (see Wag The Dog (1997) for similar, albeit darker, comedy from these two legends.) It’s with that in mind that I hope Keitel can hit a similar stride in Little Fockers to at least come through it unscathed.

I find the casting of Keitel – an actor known for his intense approach to his performances on stage and screen – very interesting. Especially seeing as this would be an all-out comedy and it’s a third film in what is now a franchise. I trust he would have signed on based on a solid script and a character he can sink his teeth into… but hey– It’s not like Harvey hasn’t appeared in stinkers before.