EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award nominee Tom Francis (Jay Kelly, You) is group for a recurring domiciled other Richard Gere successful The Off Weeks Apple TV‘s eight-episode constricted bid starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain and Ben Stiller, from head Michael Showalter, showrunner Alissa Nutting and Apple Studios.
In The Off Weeks, erstwhile divorcement throws penning professor Gus Adler’s (Stiller) life into chaos, he struggles to clasp things together during “on weeks” erstwhile he has custody of his kids. But successful his “off weeks,” he’s falling dangerously successful emotion pinch Stella West (Chastain), a mysterious female whose presence puts Gus’ on-week duties and off-weeks ambitions connected a fatal collision course.
Francis will play Jonathan’s (Gere) son.
Cast besides includes Arian Moayed, Annaleigh Ashford, John Cho, Zoë Winters, Tony Macht, Ravi V. Patel and Will Yun Lee.
Nutting executive produces alongside Stiller and John Lesher for Red Hour, Chastain and Kelly Carmichael for Freckle Films, Showalter and Jordana Mollick for Semi-Formal Productions, arsenic good arsenic Paul Lee and Gabriel Fisher for wiip. Peter Principato, Allen Fischer and Brian Steinberg executive nutrient for Artists First. Dean Bakopoulos (Made for Love) besides serves arsenic executive producer.
Francis is an Olivier Award victor and Tony nominee for his domiciled arsenic Joe Gillis in Sunset Blvd, which wrapped its Broadway tally successful July. His different caller credits see Noah Baumbach’s film Jay Kelly and Netflix’s You. He astir precocious wrapped accumulation connected Peter Berg’s The Mosquito Bowl. Francis is repped by CAA and Linden Entertainment.