Casting News - August 7, 2025
AppleTV+'s Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed; FOX's Memory of a Killer; Netflix's Unaccustomed Earth; and Prime Video's Vought Rising.
AppleTV+'s Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed; FOX's Memory of a Killer; Netflix's Unaccustomed Earth; and Prime Video's Vought Rising.
PRIME VIDEO's VOUGHT RISING
- Mason Dye and KiKi Layne will co-star on the upcoming prequel of The Boys starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash. Dye previously recurred on Prime Video's Bosch and Netflix's Stranger Things. Layne currently stars in the Old Guard film franchise on Netflix.
- No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
FOX's MEMORY OF A KILLER
- Daniel David Stewart and Peter Gadiot have been cast as series regulars on the upcoming drama starring Patrick Dempsey and Michael Imperioli. Stewart previously starred in the Hulu limited series Catch-22 and recurred on AppleTV+'s For All Mankind. Gadiot starred for four seasons in USA's Queen of the South and recurred on Showtime's Yellowjackets.
- Stewart will play Jeff, Angelo's (Dempsey) son-in-law, married to his daughter Maria (Odeya Rush). An inventor with self-confidence but no investors, he's in no rush to get a regular job or treat his father-in-law with respect. With Maria pregnant and a growing family to support, nothing could be better than having Grandpa around the corner, if only he wasn't a hitman.
- Gadiot will play Dave, a local police detective in sleepy Hudson Springs who has no idea a world class hitman is living there right under his nose, or that Angelo is that hitman. He investigated the drunk driving accident that took Angelo's wife from him five years ago, and sine then he and Angelo have become great friends. Further complicating things, Dave is secret in love with Maria.
APPLE TV+'s MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED
- Jessy Hodges, Jon Michael Hill and Nola Wallace have joined the cast of the upcoming dramedy starring Tatiana Maslany and Jake Johnson. Hodges previously recurred on HBO's Barry and FOX's The Big Leap. Hill starred for seven seasons in CBS' Elementary and in the Netflix limited series A Man in Full. Wallace currently stars in The Strangers film franchise.
- Hodges will play Mallory, Karl's (Johnson) new wife and a sharp lawyer.
- Hill will play Detective Baxter.
- Wallace will play Hazel, Paula (Maslany) and Karl's daughter.
NETFLIX's UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
- Indraneil Sengupta, Adi Roy and Iyla Sundarsingh McKaig are set as series regulars on the upcoming drama starring Freida Pinto. Sengupta previously starred in the Indian dramas Nimki Mukhiya and Shrimad Bhagwat Mahapuran. Roy appeared on Broadway in the musicals Aladdin and Jagged Little Pill. McKaig guest starred on Netflix's Toxic Town.
- Sengupta will play Jai. Roy will play Kaushik. McKaig will play Hema.