EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award nominee Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld, The Stand) and Mo McRae (Big Little Lies, Gridiron Gang) have joined the cast of Apple TV+’s limited series Lucky created by Jonathan Tropper. Production is currently underway in Los Angeles. Based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel and Reese’s Book Club pick of the same name, Lucky stars […]EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award nominee Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld, The Stand) and Mo McRae (Big Little Lies, Gridiron Gang) have joined the cast of Apple TV+’s limited series Lucky created by Jonathan Tropper. Production is currently underway in Los Angeles. Based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel and Reese’s Book Club pick of the same name, Lucky stars
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award nominee Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld, The Stand) and Mo McRae (Big Little Lies, Gridiron Gang) have joined the cast of Apple TV+‘s limited series Lucky created by Jonathan Tropper. Production is currently underway in Los Angeles.
Based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel and Reese’s Book Club pick of the same name, Lucky stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the eponymous heroine. She is a young woman who left behind the life of crime she was raised in years ago but must now embrace her darker, criminal side one final time in a desperate attempt to escape her past.
Collins will portray ‘Dutch’ and McRae will portray ‘Agent Eli Gates.’
The pair joins the previously announced cast members Annette Bening, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Timothy Olyphant and Drew Starkey.
Lucky is produced by Hello Sunshine and Tropper Ink, and is created by Tropper under his overall deal with Apple TV+. He serves as co-showrunner alongside Cassie Pappas (Silo, Griselda). Witherspoon EPs alongside Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine, a part of Candle Media. Taylor-Joy executive produces through her production banner Ladykiller. Jonathan Van Tulleken will direct several episodes, including the pilot, and serve as executive producer.
Collins will next work in Eddington for A24 alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone, The Last Frontier with Jason Clarke and the JonBenet Ramsey series for Paramount+ alongside Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen. He received an Emmy Award nomination in 2006 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his portrayal of “Jack “Bump” Hill” in FX’s Thief.
For the big screen, Collins starred as “Jackson Silva” in Jockey (2021) from Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley, a role for which he received the Best Actor award at Sundance. Additional film credits include Capote, Nightmare Alley, After Yang, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Traffic and Pacific Rim. He is represented by MGMT. Entertainment, CAA and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman.
McRae is best known for his onscreen work in feature films like the Academy Award-nominated Wild with Witherspoon, Gridiron Gang, Den of Thieves and Lee Daniels’ The Butler. He made his feature debut in A Lot of Nothing (2022) which was nominated for the Grand Jury Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative, among others. That year, he also directed the surreal afro-futurist short film Starkeisha for Hulu and Andscape.
His TV credits include Max’s The Flight Attendant, FX’s Sons of Anarchy, FOX’s Empire, NBC’s This is Us, and HBO’s Big Little Lies. McRae’s directing credits include multiple episodes of CBS dramas All Rise and East New York for which McRae served as producer. He most recently directed an episode of FOX’s The Cleaning Lady. He currently has multiple projects in development at several major streamers and networks under his Scalable Content banner. McRae is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Paul Hastings LLP.