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The film is an absolute ride, and it combines veteran actors like Sandler with newcomers like The Weeknd, Kevin Garnett, and Julia Fox. Fox plays Howard's girlfriend (also named Julia). It's her very first film role, but she's known the directors, Josh and Benny Safdie, for years. We got to ask her all about the film ahead of its wide release. [There are spoilers for Uncut Gems ahead.]

Not long after filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie finished working with composer and music producer Daniel Lopatin, on their first collaboration, they already started talking to him about their next project -- a drama based in New York's Diamond District, about a wheeling-and-dealing jeweler who bets more than he can afford. Lopatin, who also goes by Oneohtrix Point Never, was on board for the story that would eventually become Uncut Gems, out in theaters this Friday (Dec.

In Adam Sandler's new crime drama, the comedian is making another rare foray into dramatic territory playing a charismatic New York City jeweler and gambling addict who gets in over his head with the wrong people.