EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Punch (Amandaland) has been cast as a series regular in AMC and AMC+’s untitled Jonathan Glatzer Silicon Valley drama headlined by Billy Magnussen. Also added as a series regular is Everett Blunck.
The series, produced by AMC Studios, is set within the delusion bubble of Silicon Valley. The story follows an ethically compromised tech CEO (Magnussen) who is outrunning reputational damage as he tries to rescue his company from the brink of failure by any means necessary. Dragged into his chaos are his family, his kid’s elite prep school, an assortment of SV power players and his psychiatrist (Sarah Goldberg).
Punch will play tech CEO’s wife who is having a retaliatory affair after her own husband’s infidelity. Blunck will play a high school student who moves to Silicon Valley to stay with his mom and stepdad.
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In addition to Magnussen and Goldberg, they join fellow series regulars Meaghan Rath, Rob Corddry and Simon Helberg and Paul Adelstein.
Glatzer is writer, executive producer and showrunner. Gina Mingacci also executive produces.
Punch can most recently be seen leading the BBC comedy Amandaland, reprising her role of Amanda from Sharon Horgan’s BAFTA winning series Motherland. She also appeared in the British workplace comedy Bloods and in Seasons 2 and 3 of A Series of Unfortunate Events, along with Fox’s Ben and Kate and BBC’s Vexed. Her film credits include the role of Lucinda in Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods, as well as Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, Bad Teacher, Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Dinner For Schmucks and Being Julia. She most recently starred as Bella in Silent Night. Punch is repped by United Talent Agency and United Agents in the UK.
Blunck was most recently seen as the breakout star of Griffin In Summer from filmmaker Nicholas Colia, which took the top prize, Best Narrative Feature, at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. This past summer, he wrapped Charlie Polinger’s The Plague in the lead role opposite Joel Edgerton. Film credits also include Outlaw Posse, Blood For Dust and The Old Way starring Nicolas Cage. He’s repped by Buchwald and Ryan LeVine at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
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