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Charlie Korsmo's first acting part in twenty years since Can't Hardly Wait (1998). He received his undergraduate degree in physics from MIT in 2000, and his JD (law degree) from Yale in 2006; as of 2024 he is a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. His only other acting role subsequent to this was in 2024's A Different Man, also directed by Aaron Schimberg and starring Adam Pearson.

This film has a 100% rating based on 51 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

The writer and director of this movie, Aaron Schimberg, was born with a cleft palate (which required multiple surgeries). In a September 2024 interview with Le Cinéma Club, Schimberg discussed how his personal experience led him to examine the topic of facial disfigurement in his movies: "I was born with a cleft palate and I think that it's just how I identify. I mean, I don't go around identifying with this, but it's self-evident and it has affected me. It affected everything about me and I'm still dealing with it. Not only having a cleft palate, but having as many surgeries as I did, and having my face change over time. The face that I have is not really the face I was born with. Of course, the face I was born with had a hole in it. My parents are very normal and attractive people and I wonder, 'Was I supposed to look like them?' I'm just writing about myself. I'm writing about my experience and I'm trying to make sense of it. I never felt that any movie that dealt with the subject spoke to me, or if it spoke to me, it only confirmed what I feared that everybody was thinking about me was true. That this is the way the world views disfigured people and this is the way the world views me. In the case of [A Different Man], I worked with Adam Pearson, who I'd worked with before. He's someone who doesn't seem to let his disfigurement define him. Meeting him and seeing that threw me into a kind of identity crisis. I really wondered, 'Does my social anxiety and the way I am come from having a cleft palate, or is that something I had always assumed?' Meeting Adam, I thought: 'Did it have to be this way? Is this not how I'm supposed to act? Even today, could I change? Could I become a different person? Do I want to become a different person? Have I leaned on this like a crutch?' I brought up all sorts of questions for me."