Billy Crudup is headed to the small screen. The Tony and SAG Award winner has been tapped to star opposite Naomi Watts in Netflix drama series Gypsy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Picked up to series in January, the drama follows the journey of Jean Holloway (Watts), a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives. Watts will star as Jean and also be credited as an executive producer.
From writer/exec producer Lisa Rubin (I Was Here), the 10-episode drama is produced by Universal Television and Working Title. Working Title president Liza Chasin and Rubin also exec produce alongside Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) will direct the first two episodes of the series, which will premiere in 2017
Crudup will play Jean's husband and loving father to their daughter.
Picked up to series in January, the drama follows the journey of Jean Holloway (Watts), a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives. Watts will star as Jean and also be credited as an executive producer.
From writer/exec producer Lisa Rubin (I Was Here), the 10-episode drama is produced by Universal Television and Working Title. Working Title president Liza Chasin and Rubin also exec produce alongside Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) will direct the first two episodes of the series, which will premiere in 2017
Crudup will play Jean's husband and loving father to their daughter.
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