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Comedian Jim Gaffigan has a double role in his new SF movie, Linoleum, which has been shooting during the pandemic.

In the comedy, he plays Cameron Edwin, a struggling amateur rocket engineer as well as his better looking, more successful, and mysteriously enigmatic neighbour, Kent Armstrong. According to Deadline, the film is about the host of a failing children’s science TV show who attempts to fulfil his childhood dream of being an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, while struggling to mend his relationship with his wife, played by Rhea Seehorn, and connecting surreal clues that not everything in his life is exactly how it seems. Monk’s Tony Shalhoub appears as a psychiatrist.

“I had such a great time working on Linoleum with this group of talented, exhausted, COVID-tested creatives. I’ve never been so excited to see the final cut of something I’ve worked on,” Gaffigan said.

“Linoleum is a deeply personal story that attempts to thread a lifetime of significant generational moments into one sort of cosmic tapestry of life events. Our crew’s boundless creativity and Jim’s nuanced, dual-role performance made it possible to tell this multilayered narrative,” writer and director Colin West explained.