Casting News: Josh Hartnett's Netflix Series, Wilson Bethel's Apple Gig and More
Josh Hartnett is taking on a scary monster at Netflix.
The actor — whose most recent TV roles include guest spots on The Bear and Black Mirror — will star in and executive-produce an untitled limited series for the streamer about a mysterious sea creature that terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town, our sister site Variety reports.
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Hartnett will play the hard-bitten fisherman who must fight to protect his family, his community and his vanishing way of life.
In other recent casting news…
* Wilson Bethel (Daredevil: Born Again, All Rise), Keith Carradine (Fear the Walking Dead, Madame Secretary) and Jackson Kelly (The Pitt, Chucky) will recur in the Apple TV+ limited series Imperfect Women, starring Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington, our sister site Deadline reports.
* Ella Bruccoleri (Call the Midwife) will star as Mary Bennet in BritBox's 10-episode series The Other Bennet Sister, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Janice Hadlow, focused on the often-overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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