Friday, October 26, 2018

Casting News - Jessica Williams to Star in 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'; Peyton List Joins 'Cobra Kai'; Plus 7 More Updates!

Casting News - October 26, 2018

Apple's Untitled Aniston/Witherspoon Drama; CBS All Access' The Twilight Zone; The CW's Charmed; DC Universe's Swamp Thing; FOX's Lethal Weapon; Hulu's Four Weddings and a Funeral; Netflix's Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City; Showtime's Untitled Roger Ailes Limited Series; and YouTube Premium's Cobra Kai.


HULU's FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
  • Jessica Williams, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Nikesh Patel and John Reynolds will play the lead roles on the upcoming anthology series created by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton.
  • Williams (2 Dope Queens) will play Jess, the young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign, who receives a wedding invitation from her college schoolmate now living in London. She leaves her professional and personal life behind in favor of traveling to England and reconnecting with old friends, and ends up in the midst of their personal crises. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused and of course there are four weddings... and a funeral.
  • Rittenhouse (The Mindy Project) will play Ainsley, a former Dallas socialite who moved to London and became a successful interior designer. Jess is her estranged college friend whom she invites to be her maid of honor.
  • Patel (Indian Summers) will play Kash, a struggling actor in London who is engaged to Ainsley.
  • Reynolds (Search Party) will play Duffy, an American teaching 8-year-olds at a British boarding school who still has a crush on Jess, his former classmate who suddenly appears in London.
CBS ALL ACCESS' THE TWILIGHT ZONE
  • Adam Scott will appear in an upcoming episode of the anthology reboot developed by Jordan Peele. He has previously starred for five seasons in NBC's Parks and Recreation, two seasons in HBO's Big Little Lies and one season in FOX's Ghosted.
  • He will star in an episode called "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet." Additional details about the episode and his role in it are being kept under wraps.
APPLE's UNTITLED JENNIFER ANISTON & REESE WITHERSPOON DRAMA
  • Nestor Carbonell and Mark Duplass have been cast on the upcoming drama starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell. Carbonell starred for five seasons in A&E's Bates Motel and had a significant recurring role on ABC's Lost. Duplass co-created and starred in HBO's Togetherness, which ran for two seasons. He also starred in the second season of Amazon's Goliath.
  • Carbonell will play Yanko Flores, the morning show's weatherman. Charming and with an artist's soul, he thinks of meteorology as poetry.
  • Duplass will play Chip Black, the show's executive producer.
THE CW's CHARMED
  • Constantine Rousouli and Aleyse Shannon have booked recurring roles on the drama's first season. Rousouli starred off Broadway in the Cruel Intentions musical. Shannon is a relative newcomer.
  • Rousouli will play Hunter, a handsome man who wears a tailored suit well but also has considerable powers of imitation and concealment. That combination makes him an unstoppable, extremely powerful enforcer.
  • Shannon will play Jada Shields, an independent and fierce woman who knows what she wants and how to get it. She's openly gay and grabs Mel's (Melonie Diaz) attention after flirting with her at a bar. Despite her forthrightness, she remains a mystery, one Mel is determined to solve.
FOX's LETHAL WEAPON
  • Nishi Munshi has landed a recurring role on the drama's third season. She previously had a recurring role on The CW's The Originals.
  • She will play Erica Malick, the ambitious new Deputy District Attorney who begins working with Robbery/Homicide, building cases against high profile criminals. Her straight-laced and zero tolerance attitude doesn't leave a lot of room for Murtaugh (Damon Wayans) and Cole's (Seann William Scott) crime-solving shenanigans.
DC UNIVERSE's SWAMP THING
  • Jeryl Prescott will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Crystal Reed. She has previously had recurring roles on AMC's The Walking Dead, Showtime's Ray Donovan and PlayStation's Powers.
  • She will play Madame Xanadu, a blind fortune teller with a mysterious past and supernatural perceptions that reveal the future.
NETFLIX's ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY
  • Victor Garber is set for a recurring role on the upcoming limited series starring Laura Linney and Ellen Page. He starred for five seasons in ABC's Alias and three seasons in The CW's Legends of Tomorrow. He has also recurred on FOX's The Orville and Starz's Power.
  • He will play Sam Garland, a handsome English gentleman who spends his days reading old books to Anna (Olympia Dukakis).
YOUTUBE PREMIUM's COBRA KAI
  • Peyton List has joined the comedy's upcoming second season in a recurring role. She previously starred for four seasons in Disney's Jessie and three seasons in its spinoff Bunk'd. She is currently a series regular on Hulu's Light as a Feather.
  • She will play Tory, a troubled teen who is new to the Valley.
SHOWTIME's UNTITLED ROGER AILES LIMITED SERIES
  • Aleksa Palladino has been cast on the upcoming limited series starring Russell Crowe and Naomi Watts. She previously starred for two seasons in HBO's Boardwalk Empire and one season in AMC's Halt and Catch Fire. She is currently recurring on CBS All Access' One Dollar.
  • She will play Judy, Roger Ailes' (Crowe) longtime assistant and confidante who follows him from NBC News to Fox News Channel.