J.K. Simmons, meet J.K. Simmons. Starz has released the first trailer for its anticipated drama series Counterpart, which centers on Howard (Simmons), a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. “I have come to this building every day and done my job,” he says at the beginning of the trailer. “Three decades I have given to this office. But honestly, sometimes it scares me. I don’t know what we do here. Read More...
You can’t say Emma Greenwell doesn’t commit to a role. “Day one on this job, I fell backwards over a stunt body and fractured my wrist,” the 30-year-old Brit (Shameless, The Path) confesses between takes on the London set of Starz’ new dystopian drama. “It looks real in the take, because it is real.” Broken bones may be the least of her problems, though — her character, Myfanwy Thomas, has woken up in London with no memory of who she is, what shadowy government organization she’s working for, or where her new supernatural abilities have come from. Read More...
Welcome to New Orleans in 1910, where a gay Black man struggles to conceal his true nature from a society that refuses to accept him as he is. And welcome to Dubai in 2022, where that same man is now an immortal who's amassed enough wealth to live in luxurious ennui as the world around him succumbs to rage and plague. Adapting a beloved property like Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles is tricky enough, but layer in modernization, a major era shakeup, and new backstories for beloved characters, and AMC's Interview With the Vampire was facing an uphill climb. Read More...
