Casting News - May 7, 2026
Apple TV's The Morning Show & Stick; HBO's War; MGM+'s The Magnificent Seven; and Prime Video's The Probability of Miracles & We Were Liars.
Apple TV's The Morning Show & Stick; HBO's War; MGM+'s The Magnificent Seven; and Prime Video's The Probability of Miracles & We Were Liars.
PRIME VIDEO's WE WERE LIARS
- Josh Dallas, Peyton List, Parker Lapaine, Elysia Roorbach, Madison Wolfe, and Costa D'Angelo are set as new series regulars on the drama's upcoming second season. Dallas previously starred for six seasons in ABC's Once Upon a Time and four seasons in NBC/Netflix's Manifest. List recurred on FOX's Gotham, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard and ABC's The Rookie. Lapaine guest starred on HBO's House of the Dragon. Roorbach recurred on HBO Max's The Pitt. Wolfe recurred on AMC's Mayfair Witches and Netflix's The Hunting Wives. D'Angelo starred in the third season of Hulu's Tell Me Lies.
- Dallas will play Young Harris, played in the present-day story by David Morse. Charming, well-heeled, and dedicated to raising his daughters to honor the family name, he is a hard worker, a loyal husband, and stoic in the face of crisis. Despite already having command of a media empire, Harris often finds himself cast in the shadow of his even more charming - and far more reckless - older brother, the only person standing in the way of the future he envisions.
- List will play Young Tipper, played in the present-day story by Wendy Crewson. The young matriarch of a Kennedy-esque dynasty, she can bake a perfect pie, host the hell out of a dinner party, and deftly pull the strings in her husband's quest for more wealth and power. Tipper has always done it all with effortless grace and old-money elegance - but this year, a family crisis exposes her sharp edges, her icy temper, and her dirty little secrets.
- Lapaine will play Young Carrie, played in the present-day story by Mamie Gummer. In the summer of 1999, she is sensitive, quick-witted, and yearning to be loved. Ostensibly, she is the Harvard-bound, well-heeled, obedient eldest daughter... until an intriguing new boy arrives on the island, and tempts her with a very different kind of future.
- Roorbach will play Young Penny, played in the present-day story by Caitlin Fitzgerald. With a competitive streak a mile wide, she is charming, popular, and a hopeless romantic - for now, anyway. Penny deftly hides her struggles with her body image and a burgeoning panic disorder hidden from everyone, until someone unexpected sees beyond her "Perfect Penny" mask.
- Wolfe will play Young Bess, played in the present-day story by Candice King. The summer she turns 16, Bess dreams of being a songwriter, an adventurer, and most importantly... nothing like her mother. Desperate to fit in with the older kids, especially the three college-age boys who unexpectedly moved into the guest house, she will do anything to impress them... including some things she'll live to regret.
- D'Angelo will play Pfeff. A New England college kid with a mysterious edge, he is observant, soulful, and wounded in the most compelling way. When he shows up on Beechwood Island, he doesn't really intent to upend the Sinclair sisters' lives - but it's an inevitability.
APPLE TV's STICK
- Rex Linn, Sasha Alexander and Missi Pyle have booked recurring roles on the comedy's upcoming second season. Linn currently stars in NBC's Happy's Place, which has been renewed for a third season. Alexander starred for seven seasons in TNT's Rizzoli & Isles and recurred on Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer. Pyle stars in Prime Video's upcoming drama Sterling Point, which premieres in August 2026.
- No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
MGM+'s THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
- Will Patton has joined the cast of the upcoming drama based on the classic 1960 Western film. He previously starred for five seasons in TNT's Falling Skies, in the FOX limited series Shots Fired, and two seasons in Prime Video's Outer Range. He also currently stars in the Horizon: An American Saga film franchise.
- He will play Cyrus T. Clemons, a confident, swaggering and ruthless baron convinced of his own destiny. Before the Civil War, he was a humble music teacher. But after surviving the horrific battle of the Bloody Angle, he came out the other side realizing the world is made up of winners and losers, and he was bound and determined to come out on top, no matter the cost. He eventually meets his wife Beatrice and they cross the country. The town of Clemons is meant to be his crowning glory, but to achieve that, he needs the land owned by a peaceful, yet resolute group of Quakers. When they refuse to sell their land to Clemons, and hire the Magnificent Seven to fight back, Clemons is forced to use his private army to drive them from their land. But the further his plans unravel, the more desperate he becomes.
APPLE TV's THE MORNING SHOW
- Lizzy Caplan has landed a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fifth season. She previously starred for two seasons in Starz's Party Down, four seasons in Showtime's Masters of Sex, in the second season of Hulu's Castle Rock, in the first season of Apple TV's Truth Be Told, in the FX limited series Fleishman Is in Trouble, and in the Netflix limited series Zero Day.
- She will play Gwen, a passionate and uncompromising Broadway theater director.
PRIME VIDEO's THE PROBABILITY OF MIRACLES
- Ginnifer Goodwin will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Melissa Collazo. She previously starred for five seasons in HBO's Big Love, six seasons in ABC's Once Upon a Time, and in the first season of Paramount+'s Why Women Kill. She also stars in the Zootopia film franchise.
- She will play Cam's (Collazo) mother, who has relentlessly pursued solutions for her daughter ever since Cam's diagnosis as a child. She has spent so many years focused on Cam that she's lost sight of herself. Her own growth hasn't just been paused by the demands of caring for a sick child, it's been drained by the constant mental load that comes with it.
HBO's WAR
- Marisa Tomei, Kelly Macdonald, David Harewood, Richard Schiff, Claire Skinner, Omari Douglas, Kadiff Kirwan, Douglas Booth, Charles Edwards, Luca Pasqualino, Rebecca Front, Alexandra Maria Lara, Linus Roache, Violet Braeckman, Sasha Behar, Sid Phoenix, Cornelius Booth and Megan Channell will lead the cast of the drama's upcoming second installment.
- The second season will see rival law firms Cathcarts and Taylor & Byrne take on an explosive defamation case.
