EXCLUSIVE: Slow Horses’ Ruth Bradley is set to star alongside Bill Burr and Chris O’Dowd in Bender , the coming-of-age comedy shooting in Ireland this summer, which we announced last fall .

Described as Superbad meets Derry Girls , Bender is based on the late-’70s, post-punk Dublin coming-of-age experiences of Adrian Cunningham, who penned the script with Ciaran Bartlett. Set against the frenzy surrounding an impending papal visit, the story follows a suburban Dublin family navigating mounting financial pressures amid a bleak economic recession.

Bradley plays a sharp-tongued, no-nonsense matriarch trying to keep her family together and neighborhood gossip at bay while her husband Tom, played by O’Dowd, wrestles with joblessness and wounded pride.

As previously announced, Burr plays a gruff American record-store owner who convinces a ragtag gang of teenage misfits that their best, and possibly only, chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school is at a massive open-air mass for the visiting…