Casting News - December 19, 2024
AppleTV+'s Neuromancer; Netflix's Beef & Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen; and Peacock's The Good Daughter.
AppleTV+'s Neuromancer; Netflix's Beef & Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen; and Peacock's The Good Daughter.
PEACOCK's THE GOOD DAUGHTER
- Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy will play the lead roles in the upcoming limited series created by Karin Slaughter based on her novel. Byrne currently stars in AppleTV+'s Platonic, which has been renewed for a second season. Fahy starred in the second season of HBO's The White Lotus and in the Netflix limited series The Perfect Couple. Both are Emmy Award-nominated actresses.
- In the series, sisters Charlotte (Fahy) and Samantha Quinn (Byrne) have spent the last 28 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she's forced to confront her demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another. In the end, she and Samantha wonder if the price of being the good daughter was worth it after all.
NETFLIX's BEEF
- Song Kang-Ho has been cast as a guest star on the upcoming second installment of the anthology series. He previously starred in the films Snowpiercer, The Attorney, The Age of Shadows, A Taxi Driver, Parasite, Broker and Cobweb.
- No details were immediately announced about the character he will be playing.
APPLE TV+'s NEUROMANCER
- Joseph Lee will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Callum Turner and Briana Middleton. He received an Emmy Award nomination in 2023 for his supporting role on the first season of Netflix's Beef. He will next be seen recurring on the fifth season of Peacock's Law & Order: Organized Crime.
- He will play Hideo. No additional character details were revealed.
NETFLIX's SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ted Levine, Gus Birney, Karla Crome, Jeff Wilbusch and Zlatko Burić have joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco. No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
- Leigh received an Academy Award nomination in 2015 for her role in The Hateful Eight. She also starred for four seasons in Netflix's Atypical, in the AppleTV+ limited series Lisey's Story and in the fifth season of FX's Fargo.
- Levine previously starred for eight seasons in USA's Monk and two seasons in FX's The Bridge. He will next appear in a recurring role on the second season of AMC's Mayfair Witches.
- Birney starred for two seasons in Starz's Shining Vale and recurred on AppleTV+'s Dickinson. She will next star in Netflix's upcoming limited series Black Rabbit opposite Jason Bateman and Jude Law.
- Crome starred for two seasons in E4's Misfits, in the second season of CBS' Under the Dome and for two seasons in Prime Video's Carnival Row. She will next star in the upcoming feature film The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde written and directed by Kenneth Branagh.
- Wilbusch starred in the Netflix limited series Unorthodox, in the Netflix limited series Keep Breathing and in the Peacock limited series The Calling.
- Burić is best known for starring in the Pusher film franchise. More recently, he starred in the film Triangle of Sadness and in the Netflix limited series Copenhagen Cowboy.