I mean, let's be honest, 2020 was an incredibly intense year for many, many reasons with the pandemic but also with a racial reckoning in America and I'm playing a white supremacist. "I definitely had moments where I felt terrible that people might have been hurt by this character and seeing this character. "As we went through and as scripts came through and I learned more and Eric sort of told me the arc of the season before we started as well, I got very excited and nervous because it's a big thing that they were trying to pull off and I hope that we did. So after talking to Eric, I felt in very, very good hands. "I have no problem playing deeply unlikable people or villains," she said (via Collider), "but obviously this was gonna be something that needed to be handled with intelligence and was not going to be glorifying this character in a way that I disagreed with, but it would be in service to something. It drove me insane."īut if Stormfront – sorry, 'Stumpfront' – doesn't come back, it might not be such terrible news for Cash. "They built a prosthetic chest for that scene and every day for like, three weeks, it was just sitting in the hair and makeup trailer," he said (via Insider) "So the first thing I saw for three weeks every single day was a severed Chace Crawford-with-gills chest. To be honest, we're surprised Quaid is returning after he was scarred for life by Crawford's prosthetic. She is playing Monique, wife of Mother's Milk.Īs for the rest of the cast, here's who's returning:Īntony Starr (Homelander), Jessie T Usher (A-Train), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko), Nate Mitchell (Black Noir), Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell), Laz Alonso (Mother's Milk), Erin Moriarty (Annie/Starlight), Chace Crawford (The Deep), Dominique McElligott (Queen Maeve), Claudia Doumit (Victoria Neuman), Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Giancarlo Esposito (Stan Edgar), and Tomer Kapon (Frenchie), among others.
The Man in the High Castle's Frances Turner has also joined as a series regular. There's also Orphan Black's Kristin Booth and Marcella's Jack Doolan, who are playing TNT Twins Tessa and Tommy, according to Deadline.
In this alternate universe the United States has been split three ways: the Nazi-controlled east coast, renamed the Greater Reich, the Japanese "Pacific States" on the west coast, and the "neutral zone" in the center of the country.Other new faces include Dexter's Sean Patrick Flanery as Gunpowder, Revenge' s Nick Wechsler as Blue Hawk and Nancy Drew's Miles Gaston Villanueva as Supersonic.Īll three are brand new characters created specifically for the TV series. Dick novel of same name and executive produced by Scott, goes back to 1962 to see what America would look like had the Allies lost World War II.
The Man in the High Castle, adapted from the Philip K. And while the new crop boasts a Civil War drama from Carlton Cuse ( Point of Honor) and comedies starring Breaking Bad and 30 Rock alums ( Cocked and Salem Rogers, respectively), The Man in the High Castle is the one most poised to be this year's (now Golden Globe-winning) Transparent. However, this time around "interesting" doesn't necessarily translate into "good"-in fact, there's only really one pilot that's must-see viewing: The Man in the High Castle.Īs with Amazon's previous endeavors into original content, this latest batch of pilots is being delivered via Amazon Instant Video en masse so that people can tell the company which show ought to get a full season.
It's an interesting assortment of projects from people as prominent as Ridley Scott and Shield producer Shawn Ryan. Today Amazon is releasing its first wave of pilots for 2015.