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Production has started successful Los Angeles County connected Season 2 of Prime Video’s spy play bid Mr. & Mrs. Smith, from Amazon MGM Studios and New Regency.
Season 1 stars Maya Erskine and Donald Glover are back, pinch Erskine besides joining Glover arsenic an executive shaper for Season 2. The duo are believed to beryllium reprising their eponymous John Smith & Jane Smith roles; to what grade is unclear.
As previously reported, a new, younger John & Jane mates is expected to beryllium introduced successful Season 2. Mark Eydelshteyn (Anora), who was formed successful precocious 2024, is group for nan John role.
Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) had been successful negotiations to star other him. Filming had been targeting a autumn 2025 start; erstwhile it was pushed, that created a dates conflict for Thatcher and her committedness to nan last play of Yellowjackets, starring to her departure. The role, which had been eying Billie Eilish early on, is being recast.
The setup of nan caller play is being kept nether wraps; location had been a number of roles auditioning actors. Season 1 featured aggregate Janes and Johns.
From co-creators and executive producers Glover and Francesca Sloane, Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a reimagining of nan 2005 New Regency movie of nan aforesaid name. Amid nan Season 2 delay, Sloane, who was showrunner for Season 1, moved to HBO past September.
In January, Anna Ouyang Moench (Beef) joined arsenic showrunner, writer, and executive producer alongside Glover. Yariv Milchan, Michael Schaefer, Stephen Glover, Anthony Katagas, and Fam Udeorji return arsenic executive producers.
The bid a twelvemonth agone was awarded a $22.4M taxation credit by nan California Film Commission for relocating from New York, wherever Season 1 was shot, to Los Angeles County. The in installments still applies, I hear.
In Season 1 of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which was released successful 2024, 2 lonely strangers (Glover, Ersine) onshore jobs moving for a mysterious spy agency that offers a life of espionage, wealth, world travel, and a dream brownstone successful Manhattan. The catch? New identities successful an arranged matrimony arsenic Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. As they navigate high-risk missions, their screen communicative becomes progressively analyzable erstwhile existent feelings statesman to emerge. What’s riskier: espionage aliases marriage?
Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned 16 Emmy nominations for its first season, winning 2 statuettes. The nominations included an Outstanding Lead Actress In a Drama Series nom for Erskine. She precocious lent her sound to nan Emmy-nominated animated bid Blue Eye Samurai and antecedently starred successful nan Emmy-nominated bid PEN15, which she besides co-created.
