Monday, September 15, 2014

Casting News - 'The Leftovers' Star to Play 'Daredevil's Stick; Pete Davidson Joins 'Saturday Night Live'; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - September 15, 2014

ABC Family's The Fosters; Bravo's Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce; The CW's The Flash; NBC's Saturday Night Live; and Netflix's Daredevil.





BRAVO's GIRLFRIENDS' GUIDE TO DIVORCE
  • Susan Walters (Teen Wolf, The Vampire Diaries) will guest on an upcoming episode of the new drama series. She will play Karen Klein, Nate's (C. Thomas Howell) wife and a class mom who disapproves of how Abby (Lisa Edelstein) is handling her divorce.
ABC FAMILY's THE FOSTERS
  • Alberto De Diego (Major Crimes) will recur on the second half of the hit drama's second season. He will play Rafael, a kind but overworked program director at a foster drop-in facility where Callie (Maia Mitchell) goes for help.
NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
  • Comedian Pete Davidson (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Sober Companion) will join the late night sketch comedy as a new featured player for its upcoming 40th season. Additionally, Mike O'Brien - who joined the cast last year after a 4-your stint in the writers' room - will return to only writing for the series.
THE CW's THE FLASH
  • Amanda Pays - who co-starred on CBS' The Flash series in 1990 - will reprise her role as Dr. Tina McGee on the upcoming fall drama. In this incarnation, McGee is an employee of a rival company to STAR Labs.
NETFLIX's DAREDEVIL
  • Scott Glenn (The Leftovers, Silence of the Lambs) has joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Charlie Cox and Deborah Ann Woll. He will play Stick, a mysterious martial artist who becomes Matt Mudock's (Cox) mentor.