Ten-year-old Matthew Lamb appeared in season two of ‘Only Murders in the Building’ and has more acting roles when he makes his feature film debut.
Editor’s note: This story originally published on July 8, 2022.
Viewers have been treated to new and familiar faces with the debut of the latest season of Hulu’s comedy/mystery « Only Murders in the Building, » but one face possibly familiar to eastern Iowans is that of Matthew Lamb, who plays a younger version of Steve Martin’s character, Charles-Haden Savage.
« We like telling the story and developing our characters, » Martin, the comedian famous for films like « Three Amigos! » and « Father of the Bride, » told the Des Moines Register about his Hulu show in April.
The 10-year-old Lamb is the child of Meredith and Greg Lamb, the latter of whom is the executive director of development at the University of Iowa Center for Advancement.
Lamb’s appearance in the second episode of this latest season offers key insight into Martin’s character. Lamb appears in a smattering of flashback scenes shown throughout the episode.
“Being on set was really exciting since we were filming right on the streets of New York, » Lamb, from Iowa City, told the Register in a phone call in June. « If they caught a person wearing nowadays-clothes, they’d have to go back and re-film it.”
Lamb is already a triple-threat performer on stage and screen. He’s done in-state shows, such as the Coralville City Circle Acting Co.’s 2020 Christmas Cabaret, and attended the 2020 Broadway Artists Alliance (BAA), a New York-based organization that provides training for young musical theater performers, where he was instructed by Tony-nominated actor Rob McClure.
When Lamb’s parents got the call that he’d been cast in « Only Murders, » he was performing as Randy in a stage production of « A Christmas Story.
