The Gentlemen starts Season 3 production with Orlando Bloom, Robert Carlyle and Elijah Wood
The Netflix series is filming in the U.K. and Morocco. Theo James and Kaya Scodelario return alongside eight newly named cast members.
Production on Netflix’s The Gentlemen Season 3 is underway in the U.K. and Morocco, Deadline and Variety reported on October 23. Orlando Bloom, Robert Carlyle and Elijah Wood are joining the cast, expanding the ensemble around returning leads Theo James and Kaya Scodelario.
Netflix also said in an October 23 post embedded by Deadline that the season was in production. Variety reported that the new season is planned as eight hour-long episodes. Neither report gave a release date.
Who is joining The Gentlemen Season 3 cast?
The other newcomers named by both outlets are Dexter Fletcher, Bruna Marquezine, Ed Speleers, Saffron Burrows and Bugzy Malone. Wood and Bloom previously appeared together in the Lord of the Rings films, Variety noted. Fletcher also worked with series creator Guy Ritchie on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
James returns as Eddie Horniman and Scodelario as Susie Glass. Their partnership grew out of Eddie’s inheritance of Halstead Manor and his entry into its criminal underworld. The third-season premise sends the pair into a new venture: building a casino in the Middle East, with danger surrounding Eddie’s ambition, according to the logline published by Variety.
How the new season changes the cast
Two actors from the first two seasons are not listed among those returning. Daniel Ings played Eddie’s older brother Freddy Horniman, while Giancarlo Esposito played the American billionaire Stanley Johnston, Variety reported. Deadline likewise reported that neither actor is returning for Season 3.
The new cast announcement follows the series’ renewal in August, which Variety previously confirmed. At the time, Ritchie said in a statement that the show’s world had expanded and its consequences carried more weight. The start of production now moves the eight-episode season beyond that renewal announcement, while the casino storyline points to a setting beyond Eddie and Susie’s established world at Halstead Manor.
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Sources and context
- 'The Gentlemen' Season 3 Cast Additions & No Meghan Markle, Who's BackDeadline
- Robert Carlyle, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom Join ‘The Gentlemen’ Cast as Production Starts on Season 3Variety
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