Stranger Issues‘s Sherman Augustus is leaving the Midwest and heading to the DC Universe. The veteran actor and former NFL participant just lately joined the forged of DCU’s Lanterns, and is about to painting John Senior, the daddy of Aaron Pierre‘s character, John Stewart. John Senior is alleged to be the kind of mum or dad who holds onto the previous and is the definition of cussed. His function will even be recurring, so viewers will see him usually all through the upcoming HBO drama sequence based mostly on the DC Inexperienced Lantern comedian. Augustus joins the present’s stars, Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler (who will play Hal Jordan), and Kelly MacDonald, who signed on because the sequence’ common character Kerry (a sheriff who takes her job very severely).
A team-up that entails a veteran and their new recruit will all the time be dramatic and action-packed with a splash of humor right here and there. Lanterns will certainly be no totally different because the sequence will comply with Hal Jordan (Lantern legend and former take a look at pilot nearing retirement) and John Stewart (the brand new man at Inexperienced Lantern that Jordan is coaching to switch him). The 2 intergalactic heroes are on a mission to resolve a homicide, which leads them to unveil one thing a lot darker. The sequence is produced by HBO in affiliation with Warner Bros. Tv and DC Studios, and could have eight episodes. Chris Mundy is serving because the showrunner.
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Augustus is certainly one of a number of new names which have been added to the forged over the previous few months. The checklist consists of Garret Dillahunt as William Macon (a contemporary, charming, however self-righteous cowboy) and Poorna Jagannathan as Zoe (a composed and crafty girl who’s simply as influential as the boys she’s round). Ulrich Thomsen is about to painting Sinestro, a former Inexperienced Lantern member who was as soon as mentor to Hal and has gone rogue. Nicole Ari Parker is Bernadette, Stewart’s mom, Jason Ritter is Billy Macon (Kerry’s husband), and J. Alphonse Nicholson simply signed on to be the youthful John Senior.
Sherman Augustus recurs in Netflix’s Stranger Issues season 4 as Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan. He was additionally a sequence common on AMC’s Into the Badlands as Nathaniel Moon. One in every of his earliest roles on tv was within the Angela Lansbury-led murder-mystery Nineteen Eighties sequence Homicide, She Wrote. He performed Officer Rossi within the episode “A Digital Homicide.” He additionally had one-off roles in The Nanny, Star Trek: Voyager, NCIS, two episodes of P-Valley and extra.
It Took Sherman Augustus Some Time to Come Round to ‘Stranger Issues’
Stranger Issues is arguably Netflix’s most profitable authentic sequence, which suggests everybody was hooked immediately, proper? Effectively, not for Sherman Augustus. Throughout an interview with Black Lady Nerds (BGN), the actor talked about how he did not watch the present earlier than snagging a recurring function:
It took me a second to come back round to it. It is a type of issues the place household and everyone’s speaking about this entire factor, and spoke extremely concerning the present, Shawn Levy, and the brothers [Matt and Ross Duffer]. On the prime of 2019, I bought this name from the casting director, Carmen Cuba. I put myself on tape for the present, after which abruptly there’s curiosity. So, now I gotta end the present. I am late to the social gathering. I completed the present — all three seasons.
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