If you’ve been waiting for Hollywood’s casting gods to unite a scandal-plagued filmmaker, an Oscar-winning English actress, and a former boy-band member, you’re in luck. On Thursday, in a Mad Libs-style casting announcement, Woody Allen confirmed that he has cast Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake in his upcoming film, along with Juno Temple and James Belushi.

Allen has a habit of keeping details about his upcoming projects close to the vest, and this untitled feature is no different. The only additional details a press release allowed were the city where the film will shoot—New York—and the producers of the project.

It may be surprising to see Winslet and Timberlake’s names together in a casting report, but the actors’ partnership with Allen should not come as a surprise for the following reasons:

In 2008, Allen revealed that he and Winslet had originally planned to make Match Point together—until Winslet’s exhausting schedule required her to bow out of the role that would ultimately go to Scarlett Johansson. As for Timberlake, Allen recently revealed himself to have a soft spot for Disney-bred actors/mainstream musicians when he cast Miley Cyrus in his upcoming Amazon series. And with regard to the sexual-abuse allegations that seem to follow Allen wherever he goes, remember that Winslet chose to partner with another professionally esteemed filmmaker mired in decades-old controversy when she made Carnage with Roman Polanski, the filmmaker who pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old decades ago.

While promoting that film, Winslet said she had no doubts about working with the Chinatown visionary.

“When Roman Polanski invites you to join him in any project you really don’t say no,” she said, per The Telegraph. “I felt extremely fortunate to be included.”

At the time, though, several asked why Winslet and her co-star Jodie Foster might work with the filmmaker in spite of his personal history. While the answer might seem obvious—great filmmaking is not mutually exclusive from personal flaw—The Atlantic’s Alyssa Rosenberg offered her own hypothesis: