Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Casting News - 'Hawkeye's Fra Fee to Co-Star on 'Beauty and the Beast'; 'Griselda' Rounds Out Main Cast; Plus 1 More Update!

Casting News - January 19, 2022

AppleTV+'s City on Fire; Disney+'s Beauty and the Beast; and Netflix's Griselda.





NETFLIX's GRISELDA
  • Alberto Guerra, Vanessa Ferlito, Alberto Ammann, Christian Tappan, Diego Trujillo, Paulina Davila, Gabriel Sloyer, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Martin Rodriguez and José Zúñiga have joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Sofia Vergara.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
DISNEY+'s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
  • Fra Fee has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming limited series starring Josh Gad, Luke Evans and Briana Middleton. He recently starred in the Disney+ drama Hawkeye.
  • He will play Prince Benoit Berlioz, a childhood friend of Tilly's (Middleton) who has grown into a handsome, charismatic and confident prince.
APPLE TV+'s CITY ON FIRE
  • Chase Sui Wonders will play the female lead on the upcoming limited series starring Wyatt Oleff. She recently starred in HBO Max's one-season dramedy Generation.
  • She will play Samantha, an NYU student who is shot in Central Park on the Fourth of July, 2003. She is alone; there are no witnesses and very little physical evidence. Her friends' band is playing her favorite downtown club but she leaves to meet someone, promising to return. She never does. As the crime against Samantha is investigate, she's revealed to be the crucial connection between a series of mysterious citywide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of the many secrets they keep.