Thursday, April 18, 2024

Casting News - Robert Taylor Joins 'NCIS: Origins'; Jay Duplass to Co-Star on 'Dying for Sex'; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - April 18, 2024

Amazon's Butterfly; AppleTV+'s Your Friends and Neighbors; CBS' NCIS: Origins; FX's Dying for Sex; and HBO's Somebody Somewhere.





APPLE TV+'s YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
  • Eunice Bae will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Jon Hamm. She previously guest starred on NBC's Law & Order: Organized Crime, CBS' Blue Bloods, Paramount+'s Special Ops: Lioness and Amazon's Fallout.
  • No details were immediately announced about the character she will be playing.
HBO's SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE
  • Olafur Darri Ólafsson has booked a recurring role on the comedy's upcoming third season. He previously starred for two seasons in AMC's NOS4A2 and in the first season of Netflix's The Tourist.
  • He will play Iceland, the new renter of Sam's (Bridget Everett) family farm.
CBS' NCIS: ORIGINS
  • Daniel Bellomy, Caleb Martin Foote and Robert Taylor have landed recurring roles on the upcoming NCIS prequel starring Austin Stowell. Bellomy previously starred for two seasons in Starz's Power Book II: Ghost. Foote starred for two seasons in Max's Made for Love. Taylor starred for six seasons in A&E/Netflix's Longmire.
  • Bellomy will play Special Agent Granville "Granny" Dawson, a young probationary agent, who's cutting his teeth as the Evidence Custodian's assistant, all the while itching to work his way up the ranks to field agent.
  • Foote will play Special Agent Benjamin "Randy" Randolf, the agency's all too lovable golden boy. He's been tasked with showing the newly minted Agent Gibbs (Stowell) the ropes, so thankfully, this father of young twins is practiced in patience.
  • Taylor will play Jackson Gibbs, the hard-nosed father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. The character was played by Ralph Waite in several episodes of the original series.
FX's DYING FOR SEX
  • Jay Duplass and Kelvin Yu have joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate. Duplass previously starred for four seasons in Amazon's Transparent, in the Netflix limited series The Chair and in the second season of HBO's Industry. Yu recurred on Netflix's Master of None and AppleTV+'s The Afterparty.
  • Duplass will play Steve, Molly's (Williams) husband.
  • Yu will play Noah, a talented musician with genuinely earnest, big feelings about his girlfriend Nikki (Slate) that he isn't shy about sharing.
AMAZON's BUTTERFLY
  • Sean Dulake, Kim Ji-hoon, Charles Parnell, Sung Dong-il and Lee Il-hwa have been cast in recurring roles on the upcoming drama starring Daniel Dae Kim. Dulake previously appeared in the Korean films Ktown Cowboys and Operation Chromite. Ji-hoon starred in the Netflix film Ballerina. Parnell starred for five seasons in TNT's The Last Ship and recurred on HBO's Barry. Dong-il starred in the Korean series Ghost Doctor, If You Wish Upon Me and Curtain Call. Il-hwa can currently be seen in the Korean film My Name Is Loh Kiwan and the Korean series Beauty and Mr. Romantic.
  • Dulake will play Hollis, Juno's (Piper Perabo) right-hand man who oversees the staff of her private intelligence company.
  • Ji-hoon will play Gun, a brutally effective hitman who embraces the challenge of taking down a renowned agent like David Jung (Kim).
  • Parnell will play Senator George Dawson, the politician investigating Juno's company.
  • Dong-il will play Dootae Kim, David Jung's father-in-law, a formidable Korean patriarch who runs a successful shipping company. His business connects him to friends in both high and low places.
  • Il-hwa will play Dootae Kim's wife and David Jung's mother-in-law.