EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+’s Dark Matter has promoted Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale) to sequence common for Season 2 as Chris Diamantopoulos (Silicon Valley) joins the ensemble led by Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly who additionally government produce.
Based on the acclaimed e-book by Blake Crouch, Dark Matter follows Jason Dessen, (Edgerton) a physicist, professor, and household man who — one evening whereas strolling residence on the streets of Chicago — is kidnapped into an alternate model of his life. Wonder shortly turns to nightmares when he tries to return to his actuality amid the multiverse of lives he might have lived. In this labyrinth of mind-bending realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to return to his true household and save them from essentially the most terrifying, unbeatable foe possible: himself.
Alice Braga, Oakes Fegley, Dayo Okeniyi and Jimmi Simpson additionally star.
As Deadline reported in 2022, Brugel joined the forged within the recurring function of ‘Blaire,’ ‘Daniella’s (Connelly) shut good friend. Details relating to Diamantopoulos’ recurring function are underneath wraps.
Starring and government produced by Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, and hailing from government producer and sequence creator Blake Crouch and Matt Tolmach, the forged of “Dark Matter” is led by Edgerton, Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi and Oakes Fegley.
Crouch created Dark Matter and serves as showrunner, alongside co-writer and government producer Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry for Season 2. In addition to Crouch, Ben-Zekry, Edgerton and Connelly, Matt Tolmach additionally government produces.
The full first season of Dark Matter is now streaming globally on Apple TV+.
Brugel starred as ‘Rita Blue’ in 5 seasons of the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Hulu sequence The Handmaid’s Tale, alongside Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, and Ann Dowd. During her tenure, she earned 4 SAG Award nominations as a part of the Best Ensemble Cast in a Drama Series. She will reprise her function within the sixth and closing season premiering on April 8.
Additionally, she is going to star within the upcoming movie Nika & Madison, directed by Eva Thomas. Her movie Sweetness simply premiered at SXSW, and she or he can even star within the Canadian options Ballistic and Dancing on the Elephant. She is repped by the Arthur Agency and LINK Entertainment.
Diamantopoulos will subsequent be seen within the Amazon Prime sequence The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, alongside Chris Pratt and Taylor Kitsch. Perhaps greatest recognized for his portrayal as Russ in HBO’s Silicon Valley, he has performed characters starting from ‘Moe Howard’ within the Farrelly Brothers’ The Three Stooges to journalist Royal Brougham in George Clooney’s The Boys within the Boat to the sadistic Sotto Vocce in Netflix’s Red Notice. He additionally appeared within the Netflix crime drama True Story and Damon Lindelof’s Mrs. Davis for Peacock.
As a voice actor, he at present stars in Invincible for Amazon, Blood of Zeus for Netflix, and Beavis and Butt-Head for Paramount. Diamantopoulos is the fifth particular person in historical past to voice the legendary Mickey Mouse on a number of Disney sequence, for which he has obtained two Emmy nominations. He is repped by Paradigm, Untitled, and Goodman Schenckman.