EXCLUSIVE: As Netflix’s Outer Banks is headed to its fifth and remaining seasons, one of many hit journey sequence’ breakout stars, Drew Starkey, has joined the solid of Apple TV+’s restricted sequence Fortunate, headlined and government produced by Anya Taylor-Pleasure and government produced by Reese Witherspoon. He rounds out a star-studded most important solid that additionally contains Annette Bening, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Timothy Olyphant.
Written by Jonathan Tropper based mostly on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel and Reese’s E-book Membership choose of the identical title, Fortunate facilities on a younger lady (Taylor-Pleasure) who left behind the lifetime of crime she was raised in years in the past, however should now embrace her darker, prison facet one remaining time in a determined try to flee her previous.
In what’s billed as a significant recurring position, Starkey will play Cary, Fortunate’s (Taylor-Pleasure) husband.
Hailing from Apple Studios, Fortunate is co-showrun and government produced by Tropper by way of his Tropper Ink banner and underneath his total take care of Apple TV+, alongside fellow co-showrunner Cassie Pappas. The sequence is government produced by Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hi there Sunshine, part of Candle Media. Taylor-Pleasure government produces by way of her manufacturing banner Ladykiller. Jonathan Van Tulleken will direct a number of episodes, together with the pilot, and function government producer.
Starkey lately starred because the co-lead reverse Daniel Craig in the Luca Guadagnino film Queer, which premiered on the 2024 Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant. He additionally beforehand starred within the 2023 romantic comedy The Different Zoey.
On TV, along with his sequence common position as reformed unhealthy boy Rafe Cameron on Outer Banks, Starkey did an arc on Prime Video’s The Terminal Record. He’s repped by Gersh and Goodman Genow Schenkman.
