Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle… perennial rom-com co-star Judy Greer is set to play female chimp Cornelia in Twentieth Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the first sequel to its 2011 blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Greer tells Vulture:

For so long I haven’t been able to say anything about it, so this is exciting! It’s a very different kind of work than I’m used to. I’m not going to be wearing Manolo Blahniks in this one.

Well at least she isn’t playing the monkey bride’s goofy BFF.

Greer will wear a motion-capture suit to play Cornelia, love interest to ape leader Caesar seen briefly in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. She joins co-stars Keri Russell (Dark Skies), Gary Oldman (Dark Knight), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Kodi-Smit McPhee (Let Me In) and Andy Serkis (The Hobbit).

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a post apocalyptic story set a decade after the director Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 reboot. The sequel is directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and co-written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).