Casting News: Power Vet Finds Reasonable Doubt, The Boys Prequel Adds 2 And More
Reasonable Doubt is getting a major dose of power.
Joseph Sikora, who plays Tommy Egan in the Power universe, has joined the Hulu/Onyx Collective drama as a series regular for Season 3, our sister site Variety reports.
The actor will play Bill Sterling, who is Jax's (Emayatzy Corinealdi) coworker at her law firm. "Bill started his law career later in life after serving as a Coast Guard for 10 years. As he is looking to make partner, his proximity to Jax becomes imperative to his success," the official character description reads.
In other recent casting news...
* The Boys prequel series Vought Rising, starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash, has added Will Hochman (Blue Bloods) in an undisclosed role, Variety reports. Elizabeth Posey (Heels) has also boarded the ensemble as an unknown character, per Deadline.
* Mia McKenna-Bruce (Vampire Academy), Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) and Ed Speleers (Outlander, Downton Abbey) will star in BritBox and ITV's The Lady, a partly fictionalized four-part drama based on the true story of former royal dresser Jane Andrews (McKenna-Bruce), "whose rags to riches fairy tale fell apart when she was convicted of murder," reads the official synopsis. Dormer will play Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, while Speleers will portray Thomas Cressman.
* Hulu's Murdaugh Murders series has tapped J. Smith-Cameron (Succession) to play the older sister of Patricia Arquette's Maggie Murdaugh, per Variety.
* The Cleaning Lady Season 4 has added Patricia De Leon (Lioness, Mayans M.C.) in the recurring role of Chiqui, the prison boss of the Mexican Mafia, Deadline reports. Additionally, Robert Cicchini (Murder in the First) will recur as Assistant District Attorney Joel Herman, who wants to help Thony, believing her to be under pressure from the cartel.
* Gabrielle Dennis (The Upshaws, A Black Lady Sketch Show) and Michael Potts (True Detective) have joined the Netflix crime/heist drama Nemesis, co-created by Power universe boss Courtney A. Kemp.
* Season 2 of Netflix's Quarterback docuseries, on track for a July premiere, will follow Joe Burrow (of the Cincinnati Bengals), Kirk Cousins (Atlanta Falcons) and Jared Goff (Detroit Lions). Watch a teaser:
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