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Casting News: Nicole Kidman Lands Yet Another Series, Power Reunion at Netflix and More

Casting News: Nicole Kidman Lands Yet Another Series, Power Reunion at Netflix and More

Yahoo04-06-2025
Nicole Kidman's got a lot of horsing around in her future.
The Emmy- and Oscar-winning actress will star in and executive produce Girls and Their Horses, which is in development at Prime Video, our sister site Variety reports. Based on Eliza Jane Brazier's 2023 novel, the series is a murder-mystery set in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Per the official logline, the plot 'follows the newly wealthy Parker family as they aim to position their teenage daughters in the rarified, sometimes deadly world of competitive horse racing.'
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Jenna Lamia, with whom Kidman worked on The Perfect Couple, will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Brazier will pen the pilot and also be an EP.
Girls and Their Horses is the latest on Kidman's long list of TV projects over the past few years, which includes Nine Perfect Strangers, Lioness, Top of the Lake: China Girl, The Perfect Couple, Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Expats and the upcoming Scarpetta and Margo's Got Money Problems.
In other recent casting news…
* Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) has joined the cast of Nemesis, the Netflix drama from Courtney Kemp and Tani Marole. Feuerstein will play Sam Morrow, 'a high-powered attorney and total shark willing to toe the ethical line in the name of protecting his clients,' Deadline reports. In addition to reuniting with Kemp, who cast him as a recurring character in the Powerverse, Feuerstein will join fellow Power alum Shane Johnson on the new series.
* Isabella Briggs (Sugar) and Kristen Connolly (FBI: International) have landed series-regular roles in the third and final season of Prime Video's The Summer I Turned Pretty, premiering with all 11 episodes on Wednesday, July 16. Additionally, Sofia Bryant (I Am Not Okay With This), Lily Donoghue (Daisy Jones & the Six), Zoé de Grand'Maison (Riverdale), Emma Ishta (Stitchers) and Tanner Zagarino (Shrinking) will recur in the final season.
* Asante Blackk (This Is Us, When They See Us), Peyton Alex Smith (All American: Homecoming, Legacies), and Simmie Sims III have joined FX's Snowfall spinoff pilot, Variety reports. Character details are being kept under wraps.
* Victoria Pedretti (YOU, The Haunting of Bly Manor) and Kiera Allen (Watson) will star in Disinherited, new drama pilot from Peter Gould (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) in development at FX, per our sister site Deadline. The potential series will find a pair of scrappy sisters entering a world of generational wealth and long-buried crimes after receiving an unexpected inheritance.
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