The White Lotus star Will Sharpe is trading in Sicilian pizzas for kimchi.

The actor, writer, and director has been tapped to direct the movie adaptation ofJapanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner's best-selling memoir Crying in H Mart. The book, which is an expansion of an original essay Zauner penned for The New Yorker in 2018, chronicles the mixed-race musician's relationship with her late Korean mother — who dies from pancreatic cancer — and the ways in which Korean food bridges her connection to her culture after she loses her tether to her Korean identity.