Maine’s Tucker Pillsbury has been pretty successful singing pop songs about love and romance. Now he’s set to star in a movie about those topics, too.

Netflix announced this week that Pillsbury, who sings under the name Role Model, will make his film debut in a romantic comedy called “Good Sex.” He’s listed as one of the three principals in the proposed film, along with Natalie Portman and Mark Ruffalo. The romcom will be written and directed by Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO series “Girls.”

Pillsbury, 27, grew up in Cape Elizabeth and has established himself as a pop singing star, selling out venues and touring the world. His feel-good TikTok video for the song “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” has more than 4 million views and he’s performed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Today.”

 

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“Good Sex” is about a New York couples therapist (Portman) who has spent a decade in a failed relationship and now, at 40, is reluctantly getting back into the dating scene. According to the Netflix description of the film, Portman’s character meets two men, one in his 20s and one in his 50s. Pillsbury is 27 and Ruffalo is 57, so it’s not a stretch to assume who will play who, though Netflix doesn’t list any specific roles beyond Portman’s.

There is no release date set for the film yet, which also features Meg Ryan and Rashida Jones. On his Instagram page this week, Pillsbury posted an article about the film from the entertainment website Deadline, along with his comment “everyone say thank you lena.”

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Pillsbury will join Gracie Abrams on some of her summer tour, including July 23 and 24 at TD Garden in Boston, and will headline his own tour of Europe beginning in November. His latest album — “Kansas Anymore” — came out last July and was inspired by a breakup he was going through at the time. He says he became homesick, living in Los Angeles and working on the album, and started listening to music his parents listened to while he was growing up. Those artists, including Jackson Brown and Neil Young, influenced his song writing.

Pillsbury didn’t sing in a school chorus or play any instruments growing up, but displayed his creativity by writing and making videos. After graduating from Cape Elizabeth High School in 2014, he went to Point Park University in Pittsburgh to study film. While there, he started playing around with some recording equipment left in his room one day. He started performing raps for a while, but decided he’d rather sing. By early 2017 he was performing and using the name Role Model, picked because he loved the 2008 Paul Rudd comedy film “Role Models.”

Pillsbury has several tattoos to remind him of Maine, including the script P from the Portland Press Herald logo, on his right hand. Others include a sack of potatoes, a box of strawberries and a lobster trap. With his hectic tour schedule, Pillsbury says it’s been harder for him to get home as often as he’d like, but says he has some trips to Maine planned throughout the summer. Sometimes family and friends come to him when he’s performing nearby. When he played MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston on April 23, his mom, Susan Pillsbury, danced on stage with him.

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