TVLine Items: Winslet’s New HBO Gig, Mr. & Mrs. Smith Castings and More
Kate Winslet and HBO are reteaming for another Emmy-bait project.
The actress — who previously headlined Mare of Easttown and Mildred Pierce for the premium cabler — is attached to star in and executive-produce the limited series Trust, which is in development at HBO, per The Hollywood Reporter.
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The drama, based on Hernan Diaz’s novel, follows “a wealthy financier who reads a novel based on his life and is upset with how he and his wife are portrayed. He hires a secretary to ghostwrite a memoir in hopes of setting the record straight. She, however, becomes aware that he’s trying to rewrite history, and his wife’s place in it.”
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* Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You), John Turturro (Severance) and Paul Dano (Escape at Dannemora) have joined Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith series, starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, our sister site Variety reports. No details are available about the trio’s roles.
* Chucky has tapped Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) to play Glen/Glenda in Season 2, Pride reports. The gender-nonconforming character first made their appearance in the franchise’s fifth film, Seed of Chucky.
* Power Book IV: Force Season 2 has added Carmela Zumbado (Chicago P.D.), Miriam A. Hyman (The Chi), Manuel Eduardo Ramierz (Queen of the South) and Adrienne Walker as series regulars, per Variety.
* NBA Champion Stephen Curry will host The 2022 ESPYS, airing live Wednesday, July 20 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on ABC.
* Yellowstone‘s Taylor Sheridan is taking over as showrunner of the upcoming Paramount+ series Lioness, starring Zoe Saldana, our sister site Variety reports. Sheridan was already the series creator and an executive producer on Lioness; he’ll remain as showrunner and EP on Yellowstone as well.
* Freeform has released a trailer for Good Trouble Season 4B, premiering Thursday, July 7:
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