‘Rooster’ Season 2 adds five guest stars: who Sutton Foster, Lamorne Morris and Michael Urie will play
HBO’s college comedy has added five guest stars for its second season. Their character names are confirmed, while details of their stories have yet to be made public.
‘Rooster’ has added Sutton Foster, Lamorne Morris, Michael Urie, O-T Fagbenle and Zavior Phillips as guest stars for Season 2 of HBO’s college comedy, Deadline and Variety reported on October 19. Production is underway, and the reports identify all five characters by name.
Foster will play Marti, Morris will play Caleb, Urie will play Larry, Fagbenle will play Hayes and Phillips will play Sam. Variety reported that further details about the characters have not been made public, so their place in the show’s father-daughter story remains unclear.
Who are the new ‘Rooster’ guest stars?
Foster is known for ‘Younger’ and ‘The Music Man’. Morris’s credits include ‘Fargo’ and ‘Spider-Noir’, while Urie has appeared in ‘Shrinking’ and ‘Oh, Mary!’. Fagbenle’s credits include ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Presumed Innocent’; Phillips appeared in ‘Bad Monkey’. The casting brings performers from television, film and theatre into the series for its second season.
The five are joining a cast led by Steve Carell and Charly Clive. Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley, Lauren Tsai, Annie Mumolo, Maximo Salas and Rory Scovel are also among the actors Variety lists for the series. Connie Britton has appeared as guest star Elizabeth Stoddard.
What is ‘Rooster’ about?
Carell plays author Greg Russo, whose daughter Katie, played by Clive, teaches art history at Ludlow College. According to Deadline, Greg arrives on campus to give a guest lecture in Season 1. College president Walter Mann, played by McGinley, then offers him a visiting professorship and a seminar.
That offer puts Greg closer to Katie as she deals with a complicated marriage to Russian studies professor Archie Bates, played by Dunster. Katie wants to work through it herself, Deadline reported, but Greg takes the college job in an effort to help. It is the established family dynamic into which the new guest characters will arrive, though their connections to Greg, Katie or Ludlow have not been disclosed.
What happens with Season 2?
Variety says production on the second season is underway. Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses remain the showrunners, and Warner Bros. Television produces ‘Rooster’ in association with Doozer Productions, according to both reports. Neither report gives a Season 2 premiere date.
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Sources and context
- 'Rooster' Season 2 Adds O-T Fagbenle, Sutton Foster, Lamorne MorrisDeadline
- ‘Rooster’ Season 2 Casts Sutton Foster, Lamorne Morris, Michael Urie and More as Guest StarsVariety
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