Thursday, March 7, 2024

Casting News - Ben Feldman Joins 'Mayfair Witches'; 'Forever' Casts Karen Pittman and Wood Harris; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - March 7, 2024

AMC's Mayfair Witches; AppleTV+'s Murderbot; The CW's Superman & Lois; and Netflix's Forever & Untitled Kate Hudson Comedy.





NETFLIX's UNTITLED KATE HUDSON COMEDY
  • Max Greenfield, Uche Agada and Dane DiLiegro have landed recurring roles on the upcoming comedy starring Kate Hudson. Greenfield currently stars in CBS' The Neighborhood, which is now airing its sixth season. Agada starred in the Disney+ film Rise. DiLiegro appeared in the Hulu film Prey.
  • Greenfield will play Lev Levy, a good-natured pediatrician and Isla's (Hudson) encouraging fiancé. 
  • Agada will play Dyson Gibbs. Brought up from the D-League by Isla, he is an eager and naive rookie who just wants to prove himself.
  • DiLiegro will play Badrag Knauss, an Eastern European player on the Waves. Although massive in stature, and at times quite blunt, he often surprises the team with his thoughtfulness.
APPLE TV+'s MURDERBOT
  • Sabrina Wu, Tattiawna Jones, Akshay Khanna and Tamara Podemski have joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Alexander Skarsgård. Wu starred in the 2023 film Joy Ride. Jones recurred on Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, The CW's The 100 and Netflix's Lost in Space. Khanna starred in the Paramount+ limited series The Doll Factory. Podemski currently stars in Amazon's Outer Range, which has been renewed for a second season.
  • Wu will play Pin-Lee. Jones will play Arada. Khanna will play Ratthi. Podemski will play Bharadwaj.
THE CW's SUPERMAN & LOIS
  • Yvonne Chapman has booked a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fourth and final season. Chapman previously starred for two seasons in The CW's Kung Fu and recently recurred on Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender.
  • She will play Amanda McCoy, Lex Luthor's (Michael Cudlitz) intelligent, cunning and loyal ally whose business-savvy and cutthroat nature have brought the company to new heights amid Lex's absence.
AMC's MAYFAIR WITCHES
  • Ben Feldman has been cast as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming second season. He previously starred for two seasons in Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva, two seasons in AMC's Mad Men and six seasons in NBC's Superstore.
  • He will play Sam "Lark" Larkin, a successful CEO of a genetics startup and Rowan's (Alexandra Daddario) former boyfriend, who re-enters her life.
NETFLIX's FOREVER
  • Karen Pittman and Wood Harris will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. Pittman currently stars in AppleTV+'s The Morning Show and Max's And Just Like That..., which have both been renewed for additional seasons. Harris starred for three seasons in HBO's The Wire and one season in FOX's Empire.
  • Pittman will play Dawn, a college-educated, top executive in corporate finance with an easy elegance that belies her loving but paranoid form of parenting. Justin's (Cooper Jr.) mother Dawn might be strict at times, but it's always out of love. She's worked hard to give him the things he needs to succeed in life and wants him to make smart decisions.
  • Harris will play Eric, a restauranteur with a high school and life degree, the more lenient parent who always plays referee. Justin's father Eric knows that his son feels immense academic and athletic pressure to obtain a higher education and not mess up the head start his family has worked so hard to provide him. He has a good relationship with his son, and though he's not as intense as his wife, he has a clear set of boundaries.