Monday, August 15, 2022

Casting News - Ron Perlman, Nick Nolte, Charles Melton and Tim Blake Nelson to Appear in 'Poker Face'; Plus 4 More Updates!

Casting News - August 15, 2022

Disney+'s Big Shot; Hallmark's The Way Home; HBO Max's The Sex Lives of College Girls; Paramount+'s Tulsa King; and Peacock's Poker Face.





HALLMARK's THE WAY HOME
  • Sadie Laflamme-Snow has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming drama starring Andie MacDowell and Chyler Leigh. She graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada and was selected as a finalist for WBTV's Actors in Training Program last year.
  • She will play 15-year-old Alice Landry, who is none-too-thrilled when her mother Kat (Leigh) moves them from Minneapolis back to her childhood home in the small, Canadian farm town of Port Haven, New Brunswick. Alice has never met her grandmother Del (MacDowell), as she and Kat have been estranged for more than two decades following a series of life-changing events. As Alice tries to come to grips with the end of her parents' marriage and reluctantly acclimate to her new surroundings, she happens upon a surprising path that will lead her to answers about her family's past she didn't know she was looking for.
DISNEY+'s BIG SHOT and HBO MAX's THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS
  • Charlie Hall has booked recurring roles on the upcoming second seasons of the Disney+ and HBO Max comedies. He is the youngest son of actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall. He previously played basketball for the Northwestern Wildcats men's team. As an actor, he recurred on Freeform's Single Drunk Female, Peacock's Bel-Air and Hulu's Love, Victor.
  • In Big Shot, he will play Nick, the star player on the basketball team at the all-boys school Belford High. He and Louise (Nell Verlaque) get off to a rough start when their paths cross.
  • In The Sex Lives of College Girls, he will play Andrew, a student at Essex College.
PARAMOUNT+'s TULSA KING
  • Tatiana Zappardino has joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Sylvester Stallone. She previously starred in Syfy's one-season drama Superstition. She also guest starred on CBS' NCIS: New Orleans and NBC's This Is Us.
  • She will play Tina, the estranged daughter of New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi (Stallone).
PEACOCK's POKER FACE
  • Ron Perlman, Nick Nolte, Charles Melton and Tim Blake Nelson will appear in the upcoming drama starring Natasha Lyonne and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Perlman previously starred for six seasons in FX's Sons of Anarchy, two seasons in Amazon's Hand of God and two seasons in Crackle's StartUp. Nolte received Academy Award nominations for his performances in The Prince of Tides, Affliction and Warrior. Melton currently stars in The CW's Riverdale, which has been renewed for a seventh and final season. Nelson starred in the HBO limited series Watchmen.
  • As with all previous casting, no details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.