Thursday, September 11, 2025

Casting News - Matthew Rhys Boards Season 2 of 'Presumed Innocent'; Siddharth to Play Male Lead on 'Unaccustomed Earth'

Casting News - September 11, 2025

AppleTV+'s Presumed Innocent and Netflix's Unaccustomed Earth.






APPLE TV+'s PRESUMED INNOCENT
  • Matthew Rhys will star opposite Rachel Brosnahan and Jack Reynor in the upcoming second installment of the anthology drama. He previously starred for six seasons in FX's The Americans and two seasons in HBO's Perry Mason - winning an Emmy Award for the FX drama in 2018. He will next be seen in Netflix's upcoming limited series The Beast in Me opposite Claire Danes.
  • No details were immediately announced about the character he will be playing.
NETFLIX's UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
  • Siddharth will play the male lead opposite Freida Pinto in the upcoming drama based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. He previously starred in the Indian films Jigarthanda, Kaaviya Thalaivan, Maha Samudram and Chithha.
  • He will play Amit Mukherjee, a warmhearted Bengali-American man, born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who wears his emotions openly and gives of himself freely, sometimes to his own detriment. The friend everyone turns to in a crisis, he's dependable in moments of need but struggles to find stability in work or love. Just as his latest relationship begins to feel promising, his carefully balanced world unravels with the unexpected return of his long-lost love.