Casting News: Ryan Eggold's FX Pilot, Lanterns Adds Nobody Wants This Actor and More
The actor will star in the cabler's drama pilot, headlined by Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti as two of the titular siblings, our sister site Deadline reports.
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The potential series follows 'a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when one sister, Adrienne (Olsen), starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets,' reads the official synopsis.
Eggold — who recently co-starred in Prime Video's Cross — will play Adrienne's husband, a former addict who likes to frequently discuss the topic on his popular podcast.
In other recent casting news…
* Paul Ben-Victor (Nobody Wants This) will recur in HBO's upcoming DC Comics series Lanterns as Antaan, 'an extraterrestrial devoted to exposing the truth and exacting vengeance against those who wronged his people,' per Deadline.
* Jenn Lyon (Claws) has joined NBC's cheerleading mockumentary pilot Stumble as 'the winningest coach in Junior College Cheer history' who must take a job coaching a rag tag team after her fall from grace, per Deadline.
* Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat, Watson) will guest-star in AMC Networks' Silicon Valley drama The Audacity as the qualm-free CFO of a data mining operation.
* Jack Kesy (Claws) will star opposite Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan in Apple TV+'s international heist series 12 12 12, Deadline reports.
* Ella Rubin (Anora, Gossip Girl) and Amélie Elisabeth Hoeferle (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) will lead Prime Video's YA drama Sterling Point, from My Old Ass writer-director Megan Park, and executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl, The O.C.).
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