Friday, March 8, 2024

Casting News - James Wolk Joins 'Happy Face'; Madeline Brewer Cast on Final Season of 'You'; Plus 1 More Update!

Casting News - March 8, 2024

Netflix's Missing You & You; and Paramount+'s Happy Face.






NETFLIX's MISSING YOU
  • Rosalind Eleazar will play the lead role in the upcoming drama based on the novel by Harlan Coben. She currently stars in AppleTV+'s Slow Horses, which has been renewed for a fourth season.
  • She will play Kat Donovan, a detective who stumbles across her estranged fiancé on a dating app which forces her to delve back into the mystery surrounding her father's murder.
NETFLIX's YOU
  • Madeline Brewer has been cast as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming fifth and final season. She currently stars in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, which has been renewed for a sixth and final season.
  • She will play Bronte, an enigmatic and free-spirited playwright who comes to work for Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) at his bookstore. As the two connect over literature and loss, she stokes in him a nostalgia for his former self, causing him to question everything his life has become.
PARAMOUNT+'s HAPPY FACE
  • James Wolk has joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Annaleigh Ashford and Dennis Quaid. He previously starred for three seasons in CBS' Zoo and in the first season of CBS All Access' Tell Me a Story. He also recurred on AMC's Mad Men, Amazon's Goliath, and HBO's Watchmen
  • He will play Melissa's (Ashford) handsome, fit husband, a bank manager by day, marathon-trainer by night. He knows Melissa's carefully hidden secret but thinks they have left all that trauma and strain behind them for good. When he learns that the past has reached out again to interrupt their orderly lives, he's not happy about it, and feels that Melissa is being manipulated once again by a conniving sociopath.