Jim Gaffigan on How ‘American Dreamer’ Touches on Issues of Capitalism, Gig Economy and Accountability (Video)

Actor tells TheWrap that his character’s “approach to fixing things is kind of a quick fix, American kind of thing”

In “American Dreamer,” Jim Gaffigan plays a struggling rideshare driver who gets roped up in a bad situation because he’s trying to provide for his family. And the actor says the movie speaks a lot about society and the American Dream.

“I play a rideshare driver, a guy who is down on his luck, is not doing well even in the rideshare game, so he ends up driving around a drug dealer and then there are a lot of questionable bad decisions,” Gaffigan told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven.

It’s about “capitalism, the gig economy — is it realistic? His approach to fixing things is a very kind of a quick fix, American kind of thing,” he added.

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