Alexander Skarsgard, Eiza Gonzalez, Sarah Paulson & Sharon Horgan
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith will likely be in some good firm when the Prime Video sequence premieres.
The sequence, based mostly on the 2005 Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie film of the identical title, has added a variety of high-profile visitor stars reverse leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. Alexander Skarsgård, Eiza González, Sarah Paulson, Sharon Horgan, Ron Perlman, Billy Campbell and Úrsula Corberó will seem within the present, becoming a member of beforehand introduced visitor stars Paul Dano, Michaela Coel, John Turturro, Parker Posey and Wagner Moura. Particulars on their roles are being saved underneath wraps.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith stars Glover (who’s additionally an govt producer) and Erskine as “two lonely strangers who land jobs working for a mysterious spy company that provides them a wonderful lifetime of espionage, wealth, world travels, and a dream brownstone in Manhattan,” per the present’s logline. “The catch? New identities in an organized marriage as Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission each week whereas additionally dealing with a brand new relationship milestone. Their advanced cowl story turns into much more difficult once they catch actual emotions for one another. What’s riskier: espionage or marriage?”
The sequence has been within the works for a number of years, with Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge initially set to collaborate as each co-creators and co-stars. Waller-Bridge, nevertheless, left the present in 2021 over artistic variations. “I labored on that present for six months totally in coronary heart and thoughts and actually cared about it — nonetheless care about it,” she advised Vanity Fair earlier this yr. “And I do know it’s gonna be sensible. However generally it’s about understanding when to go away the get together. You don’t need to get in the way in which of a imaginative and prescient. Artistic collaboration is sort of a marriage, and a few marriages don’t work out.”
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is about to premiere Feb. 2, having been pushed again from a November premiere through the writers and actors strikes. Glover and Francesca Sloane (Atlanta, Fargo) are co-creators and govt producers.
