Jesse Plemons Joins the Cast of HBO Max’s ‘Love and Death’
The new series from acclaimed TV creator David E. Kelley, Love and Death, is expanding its cast with the addition of Jesse Plemons.
After the announcement of the limited series earlier this month, along with the casting of Elizabeth Olsen in the lead role, Deadline is now reporting that Plemons will play the lead male role of Allan Gore, Olsen’s on-screen husband. Nicole Kidman, who starred in the previous two Kelley-written limited series for HBO Max (The Undoing and Big Little Lies), is executive producing this one, along with Kelley himself. The creative duo will also be back as lead/showrunner in Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, which lands this August.
The show, as it could be no other way with Kelly’s work, is inspired by a novel — this time around is Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs (1984), by Jim Atkinson and Joe Bob Briggs. The novel tells the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, who murdered her friend from church, Betty Gore, with an axe in 1980. It is the second project focused on Montgomery put in the works over the past year, with Elisabeth Moss playing her in the limited series Candy that is currently in development at Hulu.
Jesse Plemons is therefore coming back to TV. He is currently filming Martin Scorsese’s upcoming movie Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, and will next be seen in Disney’s Jungle Cruise. Last year, he starred in two critically-acclaimed movies: Judas and the Black Messiah and I’m Thinking of Ending Things. With Love and Death, Jesse Plemons is coming back to the medium where he played his (probably) two most famous roles — Todd in Breaking Bad and Ed Blumquist in Fargo Season 2 (which earned him an Emmy nomination).
David E. Kelley will of course write the show, with Homeland director Lesli Linka Glatter handling the entire thing. No release date has been set for the project.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
