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Exclusive: Will Forte Show “Last Man on Earth” Lands 8 Year Old “Room” Star Jacob Tremblay

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Everyone wants to work with Jacob Tremblay, and he’s only eight years old.

After starring in “Room,” and getting the Critics Choice Award last night, young Jacob is bigger than the bear from “The Revenant.”

He’s already got three movies in the can. Now I’m told Jacob will appear in “The Last Man on Earth.” I’m told when the show picks up this spring, Jacob will play a young version of star Will Forte. This might be in flashbacks to Forte’s character’s youth, or who knows what.

The new half season should be pretty surreal anyway. Forte was seen at last night Critics Choice Awards with his exactly half his head and beard shaved.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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