Casting News: Shailene Woodley Finds Paradise, Cristin Milioti Joins Elizabeth Olsen Pilot And More
Shailene Woodley has discovered Paradise, joining the buzzy Hulu drama for Season 2 in a major recurring role.
According to our sister site Deadline, the Big Little Lies vet is reportedly playing a prominent survivor who is connected to Agent Xavier Collins' (Sterling K. Brown) mission, which was set up in the Season 1 finale.
Filming on the new season is already underway; get more details here.
In other recent casting news...
* Cristin Milioti (The Penguin) will star opposite Elizabeth Olsen in the FX drama pilot Seven Sisters, about a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when a sister (Olsen) starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets, per Deadline.
* Kal Penn (Designated Survivor), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) and Claire Forlani (NCIS: Los Angeles, CSI: New York) are the latest additions to Season 4 of HBO's Industry, Deadline reports. Penn will play Jay Jonah Atterbury, CEO and co-founder of payment processor Tender; Heaton will portray Jim Dycker, a finance journalist; and Forlani is Cordelia Hanani-Spyrka, a corporate PR heavy-hitter.
* Peter Schrager has departed NFL Network's Good Morning Football after nine years, he announced on today's show, per Deadline. "This will be the last episode I will be on this program," he said, adding, "With a heavy heart, I'm stepping away, but it's also for good reasons and for a bright future."
* Johnny Berchtold (Reacher) and Will Harrison (Daisy Jones & the Six) have joined Hulu's Murdaugh Murders limited series as Maggie and Alex Murdaugh's sons, per Deadline.
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