EXCLUSIVE: It’s a busy time for Patrick Fischler. The actor known for his work on Mad Men, Lost and most recently in Oscar-winning American Fiction, has been tapped for a key guest-starring role in the upcoming second season of Hulu‘s Paradise, Dan Fogelman’s drama series from 20th Television. He also is set for a recurring role in Apple TV‘s upcoming Cape Fear, opposite Javier Bardem, Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson.
Fischler’s role in Paradise is being kept under wraps, but we hear he’s playing a brilliant professor trying to balance his work with a quietly challenging personal life.
Starring Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson and James Marsden, Paradise is set in a “serene community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals. But this tranquility explodes when a shocking murder occurs, and a high-stakes investigation unfolds.”
The series is executive produced by Fogelman, Brown, John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, John Hoberg, Jess Rosenthal, and Steve Beers.
In Cape Fear, Fischler will play an undisclosed role opposite Bardem and Adams.
Cape Fear is created, written and showrun by Nick Antosca, based on the novel The Executioners, which inspired Gregory Peck’s 1962 film, and the 1991 remake directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. The series is billed as a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century. In it, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Adams) and Tom Bowden (Wilson) when Max Cady (Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison.
Cape Fear comes from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amblin Television. EPs include Scorsese, Antosca and Alex Hedlund for Eat The Cat; Spielberg, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for Amblin Television, Bardem, Adams, and Morten Tyldum, who directs the pilot.
Fischler will next be seen alongside Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson in Mubi’s horror film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Misama. He was most recently seen opposite Jeffrey Wright in the Oscar-winning American Fiction and continues to recur on NCIS: Origins. Fischler is repped by Paradigm and Main Title Entertainment.
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