Tiffany Haddish has no interest in imposter syndrome.
She speaks with the certainty of someone who has already envisioned and earned every room she walks into. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, those rooms will be scattered across the Croisette, where she arrives with two character-driven thrillers on Highland Film Group’s sales slate — making a pointed case that her dramatic range has long been underestimated.
In Matt Sukkar’s “The Deputy,” Haddish plays Amanda Jackson, an honest officer navigating a deeply corrupt Mississippi town. The action thriller, written by “Narcos” and “Griselda” co-creator Carlo Bernard and adapted from Victor Gischler’s novel, was shot in May 2025 in Mississippi.
The ensemble cast includes Duke Nicholson (grandson of Jack Nicholson), William H. Macy, Stephen Dorff and Julia Fox. Haddish also serves as an executive producer.
Her second project, “The Girl in the River,” is similarly rooted in Mississippi, with production spanning Canton, Jackson and Vicksburg in August 2025. Directed by Brando Benetton, she stars alongside Ralph Macchio, Devon Sawa and Maggie Grace in a story about a seasoned criminologist and a young psychologist drawn into a remote town to investigate the murder of a little girl and the disappearance of her twin sister.
