Nico Tortorella to Play Gay Dad as They Face Fertility Issues in Real Life

"Younger" star Nico Tortorella is to play a gay dad in a new film drama, IndieWire reports. The 33-year-old actor, who defines themselves self as non-binary, will be playing opposite Juan Pablo Di Pace�("Fuller House,"�"Mamma Mia!"), who plays their husband in the first feature from video and commercial director�Andy Vallentine.

Titled "The Mattachine Family," the film, IndieWire writes, "centers on the relationship between Thomas (Tortorella) and Oscar (Di Pace). While the pair are very much in love, they find, after�their first foster child returns to his birth mother, that they have different ideas about what it means to make a family."

It features Emmy nominee�Carl Clemons-Hopkins�("Hacks,"�"Candyman") and�Emily Hampshire�("Schitt's Creek,"). Currently in production, the film is executive produced by�Zach Braff�("Garden State").�It has a script co-written by Vallentine's husband, Danny Vallentine.

Featured in the cast are Jake Choi ("Lust Life Love"�), Annie Funke ("This Is Us"), Heather Matarazzo ("Welcome to the Dollhouse") and Cloie Wyatt Taylor ("Yes Day").

Tortorella is married to Bethany Meyers, 34, who also identifies as non-binary. This past weekend the couple posted an IG about the difficulties they are having conceiving a child. They titled the clip "The Baby Making Song," punctuating the title with a LOL emoji.

"We're tryin to get pregnant. It's harder than expected," Tortorella and Meyers sang during the clip. "In all our years of schoolin', the books they had us foolin'. It takes more than dirty toilet sits."

"Although the music touched on a serious subject, the duo concluded�by offering hopeful parents a promise about the future," US Weekly notes.

"So, don't you worry. Your baby's not in any hurry," the pair noted. "It'll happen when it's right you'll see. Put a baby in my belly."

On a more serious note, Tortorella wrote: "In all seriousness though, anyone going through a fertility journey knows just how hard, exhausting and infuriating the process can be," the duo wrote. "We randomly wrote this tune one night when we were feeling extra frustrated and it's made us laugh ever since. We hope it does the same for you (rainbow emoji)."

They expressed their love for children in June in another US Weekly report. "I'm really great with babies! And we've been talking about having babies forever," Tortorella exclusively shared with�Us Weekly�in June. "I feel like our babies will just choose when the time is right. It's not actually going to be us that makes that decision."

Check out some pics from Tortorella's IG: