Chase Sui Wonders joins Naughty cast

The Studio actress will join Jennifer Aniston and Peter Dinklage in Olivia Wilde's upcoming festive comedy, Deadline reports.

Naughty follows Mallory (Aniston), who needs to track down Santa Claus (Dinklage) to convince him to testify in her divorce hearing in a bid to win custody of her son, and Chase will play a friend joining the desperate mom on her trip to the North Pole.

Olivia - who recently appeared with Chase in I Want Your Sex - recently admitted Naughty is a "passion project" for her and “way bigger than anything [she had] ever taken on”.

She told The Hollywood Reporter: “I can’t believe it. This is a project we’ve been working on for years; it’s a passion project and I fought and fought and fought to get this made.

“I feel so grateful that we get to make it because it is a movie that aims to be in the spirit of Rob Reiner, a comedy that has a tremendous amount of heart at its core.

“It’s also a much bigger endeavour and is something that is way bigger than anything I’ve ever taken on. I feel very honoured in this day and age to be able to direct an original theatrical comedy for a studio at this level.

“Universal is putting a tremendous amount of trust in me and the ability to be able to direct Jen and Peter, among a host of other incredible actors who are hopefully coming on board.

Naughty will be the fourth time Olivia has directed - following The Invite, 2022’s Don’t Worry Darling and Booksmart - and is currently slated for a November 2027 release.

And she added to the Boston Hassle that directing herself has brought a new outlook to her acting style.

She mused “It was definitely thanks to my scene partners that acting in this film felt really fluid. It didn’t scare me in the way that I think I probably would have assumed, [That] it would be a very difficult thing to take on.

“I actually found it to be probably the most joyful acting experience of my life. I always liken it to playing on the NBA All Star team. It’s like somehow something went wrong, and I ended up on the team! [But] they make it pretty easy to play basketball."