Yahoo Lifestyle Poppy Liu & Chris Bauer Join Tessa Thompson-Led Netflix Limited Series ‘His & Hers’
EXCLUSIVE: Poppy Liu (Hacks, Space Cadet) and Chris Bauer (Fellow Travelers, The Wire) have joined the cast of Netflix’s limited series His & Hers in recurring roles. They will star opposite series lead and EP Tessa Thompson. Production is set to begin this fall.
The six-episode limited series from William Oldroyd and adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel is set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta where Anna (Thompson) lives in haunting reclusivity and is fading away from her friends and career as a journalist. But when she overhears about a murder in Dahlonega – the sleepy town where she grew up – she is snapped back to life, pouncing on the case and searching for answers. Detective Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal) is strangely suspicious of her involvement, chasing her into the crosshairs of his own investigation. There are two sides to every story, his and hers, which means someone is always lying.
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Liu will play Helen Wang, the headmistress at St. Hilary’s Academy who is fiercely self-protective. She is a good friend of the murder victim and becomes increasingly irritated and incensed by Anna’s reporting, but Anna can’t help but feel as though Helen is hiding something.
Bauer will play Clyde Duffie, Rachel’s husband and a pizza chain mogul who is very candid about his immense wealth. After Rachel is found murdered in the woods, he becomes a person of interest for Detective Jack Harper and the secrets he keeps may make him the perfect suspect.
His & Hers also stars Pablo Schreiber, Crystal Fox, Sunita Mani, Rebecca Rittenhouse and Marin Ireland.
The limited series hails from writer/executive producer Bill Dubuque; writer/executive producer Dee Johnson, who serves as showrunner; filmmaker William Oldroyd, who serves as a writer, executive producer and will direct the first episode; as well as executive producers Jessica Chastain and Kristen Campo. Fifth Season is the studio.
Liu is best known for her role as ‘Kiki’ in the critically acclaimed Max series Hacks, for which she was SAG-nominated for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.” She will next be seen in Netflix’s dramedy series No Good Deed, opposite Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow. Liu has also appeared in Apple’s The Afterparty, Amazon’s Dead Ringers, and AMC’s Better Call Saul. On the feature side, she can recently be seen in the Amazon feature film Space Cadet, opposite Emma Roberts. Liu is repped by Buchwald, Framework Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello.
Bauer will next be seen alongside Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen in the Paramount+ limited series, JonBenet, and in Rian Johnson’s Peacock series Poker Face, opposite Natasha Lyonne. He recently played the unrecognizable ‘Senator McCarthy’ in the Peabody Award-winning series Fellow Travelers, for Showtime. He currently stars as pro wrestler ‘Wild Bill Hancock’ on Netflix’s Heels. His multiple-long-running TV credits include ‘Frank Sobotka’ in HBO’s The Wire, and ‘Andy Bellefleur’ in True Blood also from HBO. Bauer recently played lead roles in the independent features, The Razor’s Edge and Our Hero Balthazar. He is repped by Buchwald, Framework Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams.
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