HBO’s ‘Perry Mason’ adds Juliet Rylance, Robert Patrick, Stephen Root and Eric Lange
HBO’s limited Perry Mason series from Team Downey added some all-star cast, joining an already impressive team. Deadline reports that “McMafia‘s Juliet Rylance is set as a series regular and Andrew Howard (The Oath), Eric Lange (Narcos), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, X-Files, True Blood) and Stephen Root (Office Space, Pushing Daises, Red State, Barry) will recur opposite Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow” on the show.
The outlet summarized “Written and executive produced by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, who also will showrun, and based on the characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, the reimagined Perry Mason is set in 1931 Los Angeles. While the rest of the country suffers through the Great Depression, this city is booming! Oil! Olympic Games! Talking Pictures! Evangelical Fervor! And a child kidnapping gone very, very wrong! Based on characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, the limited series follows the origins of American Fiction’s most legendary criminal defense lawyer, Perry Mason (Rhys). When the case of the decade breaks down his door, Mason’s relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and just maybe, a pathway to redemption for himself.”
Rhys is an award-winning actor from the hit FX Show, The Americans, working to bring to life this iconic character in TV history.
Rylance will play Della Street, E.B. Jonathan’s (Lithgow) legal secretary.
Deadline continues: “Howard portrays Detective Ennis and Lange is Detective Holcomb. A commanding force as homicide detectives within the LAPD, they are masters of intimidation with a knack for getting their way without regard for proper procedure.”
“Patrick as Herman Baggerly, a major player in a variety of Southern California industries, he is a member of the same Pentecostal church as the Dodson family and hires E.B. Jonathan and Perry Mason to run a parallel investigation to the LAPD.”
Root portrays Maynard Barnes, the District Attorney and overall awful human being. The cast will also feature Tatiana Maslany, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Nate Corddry, Veronica Falcon, Jefferson Mays,Gayle Rankin and Lily Taylor.
