Casting News - August 28, 2018
AMC's NOS4A2; CBS' Blood & Treasure; The CW's All American; Netflix's Another Life, Living With Yourself & Unbelievable; Syfy's Deadly Class; TNT's Snowpiercer; and YouTube Premium's Step Up: High Water.
YOUTUBE PREMIUM's STEP UP: HIGH WATER
- Ashley Greene and Jeremy Copeland have joined the cast of the drama's upcoming second season. Greene starred in the Twilight film franchise as well as in two seasons of Audience's Rogue. Copeland is a professional choreographer and dancer.
- Greene will play Nine Sanders, a New York-based A&R rep who returns to Atlanta to oversee the details of Sage's (Ne-Yo) tour.
- Copeland will play Zo Browder, a gender-fluid professional dancer who brings real-world experience to Sage's crew.
CBS' BLOOD & TREASURE
- Anna Silk has booked a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Matt Barr and Sofia Pernas. She previously starred for five seasons in Syfy's Lost Girl.
- She will play Roarke, a skilled international tracker and fighter who is incredibly astute, quick and always braced for action. Although she may seem unassuming at first, she is the toughest of her group of mercenaries and is unwavering in her take no prisoners approach.
NETFLIX's UNBELIEVABLE
- Eric Lange has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming limited series starring Toni Collette and Merritt Wever. He starred for two seasons in Netflix's Narcos. He next appears in Amazon's The Man in the High Castle and Showtime's Escape at Dannemora.
- Like with all previous casting on the series, no details were immediately released about the character he will be playing.
TNT's SNOWPIERCER
- Aleks Paunovic has landed a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs. He has previously recurred on The CW's iZombie, Syfy's Continuum, BBC America's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Syfy's Van Helsing.
- He will play Bojan Boscovic, a large, fearsome looking man with frostbite scars and stumped ears. He is a Breachworker, performing one of the most dangerous jobs on the train. He's used to the cold and hazards of the job, comfortable enough to joke about his life being at risk.
THE CW's ALL AMERICAN
- Hunter Clowdus is set for a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Taye Diggs and Daniel Ezra. His previous guest credits include MTV's Teen Wolf, ABC's Mistresses, TNT's Rizzoli & Isles and Netflix's American Vandal.
- He will play J.J., the life of every Beverly High party and a linebacker on Spencer's (Ezra) new team.
NETFLIX's ANOTHER LIFE
- Tyler Hoechlin, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson and Elizabeth Faith Ludlow will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Katee Sackhoff and Selma Blair. Furthermore, Omar Madha (The 100, Scorpion) has signed on to direct the first two episodes.
- Hoechlin (Teen Wolf, Supergirl) will play Ian Yerxa, the former commander of the ship Niko (Sackhoff) now leads.
- Chatwin (Shameless) will play Erik Wallace, Niko's husband and a member of the United States Interstellar Command that seeks out life elsewhere in the universe.
- Anderson (Doctor Who) will play William, the holographic interface of a sentient AI that has the entirety of human knowledge at its disposal.
- Ludlow (The Walking Dead) will play Cas Isakovic, Niko's second in command and staunch ally.
NETFLIX's LIVING WITH YOURSELF
- Aisling Bea has joined the cast of the upcoming comedy starring Paul Rudd. Her casting keeps her at Netflix following a featured stand-up set during the second season of The Comedy Lineup. She also starred for one season in Hulu's Hard Sun.
- No details were immediately announced about the character she will be playing.
SYFY's DEADLY CLASS
- Tom Stevens has booked a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Benedict Wong and Benjamin Wadsworth. He starred for two seasons in FOX's Wayward Pines and three seasons in Hallmark's Cedar Cove.
- He will play Chester Wilson, a resident of the same boys' home Marcus (Wadsworth) lived in before taking to the streets of San Francisco. An incident at the boys' home leaves him thirsty for revenge against Marcus, his new archenemy. Built like a linebacker with a distinct face, he is vile and volatile, and ready to take down anyone in his path to vengeance.
AMC's NOS4A2
- Karen Pittman has been cast on the upcoming drama starring Virginia Kull and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. She has previously recurred on Netflix's Luke Cage and FX's The Americans.
- She will play Angela Brewster, Willa's mother, a beautifully put together Northeast liberal. Vic's mother is her cleaning lady, and she is warm and welcoming to Vic.
