Susan Kelechi Watson was a key a part of the This Is Us forged over all six seasons till the sequence finale in 2022, and her massive return to TV got here in early 2024 as a bomb knowledgeable by the title of Cricket on Will Trent. Sadly, Cricket was killed off on the finish of her first episode, and I for one was bummed that the ABC drama wasn’t going to function her recurrently. Now, together with her new Netflix present set to debut within the 2025 TV schedule, her feedback to CinemaBlend have me hyped for an “excessive” forged. Signal me up for Shondaland’s The Residence!
The Residence is coming to viewers with a Netflix subscription because the final massive arrival in March among the many 2025 Netflix launch dates. The present is a whodunnit that might be set within the White Home, with 157 suspects for one lifeless physique. Throw in 132 rooms and an eccentric detective (performed by Orange is the New Black‘s Uzo Aduba), and this may very well be a must-binge for followers of the thriller style.
And because it seems, the forged is filled with stars of the big and small display screen, together with Uzo Aduba, My Title is Earl‘s Jason Lee, Breaking Unhealthy‘s Giancarlo Esposito, and Recent Off the Boat‘s Randall Park together with Susan Kelechi Watson, to call only a handful. Once I spoke with Watson throughout SCAD TVfest in Atlanta, I needed to ask for her ideas on the remainder of the star-studded forged.
She shared that she knew “not less than a couple of individuals who could be on it” when she landed her function as White Home Assistant Usher Jasmine Haney. Watson went on:
I used to be tremendous excited to listen to that Uzo was enjoying the detective, as a result of I simply thought, ‘What an excellent selection.’ Simply to think about that function on the web page, after which think about Uzo in it was simply so sensible to me. I simply love the way in which that they have been casting every thing. Ken Marino, I like him. He is simply so humorous. Bronson Pinchot. It is simply actually sensible casting. Jason Lee, and simply so many others. After which new faces you will see, like Molly Griggs. You may see folks that you just’re like, ‘Oh, they’re dope!’ I am actually fairly proud to be part of it. Then you definately herald someone like Andre Braugher or Giancarlo Esposito, and you then’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, we have taken it excessive.’ It is simply been a pleasure to be part of.
Andre Braugher was initially slated to play White Home Chief Usher A.B. Wynter previous to his dying at 61 as a consequence of lung most cancers, with Giancarlo Esposito then forged to take over the late legend’s function in The Residence. With a March 20 premiere date for the brand new sequence, subscribers are nonetheless in for a wait earlier than attending to see the star-studded forged in motion past the trailer.
Susan Kelechi Watson solely had good issues to say forward of the premiere, although! Once I requested if taking pictures a streaming present like The Residence feels totally different after six seasons of community TV with NBC’s This Is Us after which her all-too-short stint on ABC’s Will Trent, she shared:
You’d suppose so, however I really feel like we shot for 2 seasons as a result of it took two years to do that. As a result of we began, after which there was the strike, after which after we got here again the following yr after the strike, after which we needed to reshoot due to Andre’s transition. We have gone by way of loads with this present, and so it seems like I have been away from tv for a very long time, however I have never actually. I bought this present a couple of months after I ended This Is Us. [laughs] However now, three years later, simply due to every thing that is occurred.
The Residence was hardly the one present affected by the SAG-AFTRA actors strike and/or the WGA writers strike, however Watson appears greater than prepared for viewers to take a look at the brand new tackle a “whodunnit” case with loads of stars within the case. Check out the trailer under:
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There’ll clearly be some comedy to associate with the drama in The Residence, and I can think about this turning into Shondaland’s subsequent Netflix hit, though it actually is not going down within the Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte universe. The brand new thriller sequence arrives on Netflix on Thursday, March 20.
If you wish to see extra of Susan Kelechi Watson forward of the brand new drama, you could find all six seasons of This Is Us in addition to her short-lived stint on Will Trent streaming with a Hulu subscription. This is hoping her Residence character lives loads longer than Cricket did!