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EXCLUSIVE: Jack Ball (Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party), Kylar Miranda (Baywatch) and Julian Grey (Fear nan Walking Dead) are group arsenic bid regulars successful How To Survive Without Me, HBO Max‘s family play pilot. They subordinate antecedently announced leads Ray Romano, Joshua Jackson, Kaley Cuoco and Julia Schlaepfer successful nan task from Greg Berlanti, Bash Doran and Warner Bros TV.
Written by Berlanti and Doran from a communicative nan duo co-wrote pinch Robbie Rogers, How To Survive Without Me is group successful nan aftermath of matriarch Beverly’s passing. The De Angelis family has begun to drift, unsure really to negociate their complicated, evolving lives without her guidance, but successful existent Beverly fashion, she recovered a measurement to support moving nan show from nan beyond. Should they wish to acquisition Beverly’s last work, nan family must find nan clip — and make nan effort — to stay connected, and beryllium location for each different done each of life’s challenges yet to come.
Ball will play nan mediate son, Cary, who inherited his mom’s razor-sharp wit and intellect. He turned down a lucrative occupation aft graduation to work astatine his father’s financial readying firm, juggling temperamental clients and his father’s all-consuming grief. His hubby Luis (Miranda) and their 2 kids supply a invited sanctuary erstwhile Cary feels overwhelmed by his siblings.
Miranda’s Luis is simply a pitcher for nan Los Angeles Dodgers, nan team’s and MLB’s first retired cheery player, and Cary’s husband. Luis is nan easygoing counter to Cary’s perpetually overwhelmed nature.
Grey is PJ. The youngest of nan siblings, PJ still lives astatine location pinch Leo (Romano). He spends his days lounging by nan pool, playing video games, and ordering nutrient pinch Leo’s in installments cards. His siblings deliberation he’s a freeloader but nan existent logic he stays location would astonishment them all.
Romano plays nan patriarch of nan family, Leo, recently a widower and abruptly performing nan lead domiciled of genitor that he ne'er auditioned for. Jackson plays Cooper, nan related of Liz (Schlaepfer) and Cuoco’s characteristic Kate, nan eldest girl who inherited her mother’s perfectionism, elegance, and organizational prowess.
Berlanti and Doran executive nutrient pinch Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman. Rogers besides executive produces via Berlanti Productions and its wide woody pinch WBTV. Warner Bros Television is nan studio. Daniel Minahan will nonstop nan pilot.
Ball, known for his activity successful Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party, Kill The Monsters and Sirens, is repped by Stewart Talent and Darlene Kaplan Entertainment.
Miranda, astir precocious seen successful romanticist play On Swift Horses, will adjacent return connected a recurring domiciled successful Fox’s caller Baywatch series. He’s repped by LA Talent and MRK MGMT.
Grey portrayed Klaus successful Fear nan Walking Dead and appeared successful The Matrix Resurrections, Netflix miniseries Godless and The Craft: Legacy, among galore others. He’s repped by Innovative Artists Entertainment, Amplified Entertainment Inc, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller et al.
