Monday, February 5, 2024

Casting News - 'Outlander' Prequel Casts Lead Roles; Don Cheadle Joins 'Fight Night'; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - February 5, 2024

CBS' FBI: Most Wanted; Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story; Peacock's Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist; and Starz's Outlander: Blood of My Blood.




STARZ's OUTLANDER: BLOOD OF MY BLOOD
  • Harriet Slater, Jamie Roy, Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine will play the lead roles in the upcoming Outlander prequel. Slater currently stars in the MGM+ limited series Belgravia: The Next Chapter. Roy appeared in the films Condor's Nest and Flowers and Honey. Corfield starred for two seasons in the BBC's We Hunt Together. Irvine starred in USA's one-season drama Treadstone.
  • The series will center on two parallel love stories set in two different time periods, with Jamie's parents in the early 18th century Scottish Highlands and Claire's parents in WWI England.
  • Slater and Roy will play Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser, Jamie Fraser's parents.
  • Corfield and Irvine will play Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp, Claire Fraser's parents.
CBS' FBI: MOST WANTED
  • Steven Williams has landed a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fifth season. He previously recurred on FOX's The X-Files, HBO's The Leftovers, Showtime's The Chi, HBO's True Detective, Paramount's Yellowstone, Netflix's Locke & Key, CBS' All Rise and FX's Snowfall.
  • He will play Ray Cannon Sr., the father of Special Agent Ray Cannon (Edwin Hodge).
PEACOCK's FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION DOLLAR HEIST
  • Don Cheadle has joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for his performance in Hotel Rwanda. He also starred for five seasons in Showtime's House of Lies and three seasons in Showtime's Black Monday.
  • He will play JD Hudson, one of Atlanta's first Black detectives assigned to Muhammad Ali's (Dexter Darden) security detail and the robbery.
NETFLIX's MONSTERS: THE LYLE AND ERIK MENENDEZ STORY
  • Leslie Grossman will co-star on the upcoming second installment of the anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. Her casting reunites her with Murphy after starring for five seasons in FX's American Horror Story.
  • She will play Judalon Smyth, Dr. Jerome Oziel's former patient and mistress who found herself entangled in the Menendez case, and who ultimately played a key role in Lyle (Nicholas Chavez) and Erik's (Cooper Koch) arrests.