Dayton callie, Charlie Hunnam, Theo Rossi, Kim Coates And Mark Boone Junior
IN PHOTO: Dayton Callie (L-R), Charlie Hunnam, Theo Rossi, Kim Coates and Mark Boone Junior, actors in the FX Networks' show, "Sons of Anarchy", pose for members of the media at an FX Networks party at Lucky Strike Lanes in New York, March 29, 2012. Reuters/Andrew Burton

After he wrapped up his long-running biker drama show “Sons of Anarchy,” actor Theo Rossi starred in an indie film, “Bad Hurt,” opposite “How I Met Your Mother” actress Ashley Williams. Best known for his role as SAMCRO’s Juan Carlos “Juice” Ortiz, the 39-year-old star’s New York-based production company Dos Dudes Pictures is one of the production companies behind the feature film.

A film about a family’s struggle to stay together, “Bad Hurt” was filmed in Staten Island where the actor grew up. In an interview with Anthem Magazine, Rossi admitted that he still lives in Staten Island when he is not working in L.A. and thinks that growing up in the island was the “greatest thing on earth.”

Currently in production for his latest movie “When the Bough Breaks,” a psychological thriller film directed by Jack Olsen and Karl Gajdusek, the actor recently posted on his Instagram account that he was selected as one of the jurors at Tribeca Film Festival. “Bad Hurt” is also one of the movies featured in the film festival.

Here are the five fast facts about Theo Rossi’s new movie “Bad Hurt.”

  1. Directed by Mark Kemble (“Race and Racing Fear”), “Bad Hurt is “an agonizing story, but one that reminds us of the sturdy bonds that exist within a family, and how determination can survive even in the darkest of places,” according to the film’s synopsis.
  2. Rossi plays Todd Kendall, a son and the middle child of the couple who struggles to have a stable life in their Staten Island home. The actor described his character as someone who wants to slow down as the world seemed to revolve around him.
  3. Executive produced by “The Wolf of Wall Street” producer Emma Koskoff, the film also stars Karen Allen (“Raiders of the Los Ark”) as Elaine Kendall and Michael Harney (“True Detective”) as Ed Kendall.”
  4. Written by Kemble and Jamieson Stern, the movie was produced by Theo Rossi, Nicholas Carmona, Pam Thur and Stern.
  5. Others stars who are on the film include Johnny Whitworth, Dorothy Lyman, Barry Primus, Joanna Sanchez, Sebastian Tillinger, Charles DelGatto, Calvin Dutton, Charles Techman and Fred Tolliver Jr.

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