Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex, Now You See Me 2, Are You Sleeping?), Garrett Hedlund (Triple Frontier, TRON: Legacy, Mudbound), Tim Robbins (Here and Now) & Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade, The Addams Family) have been cast to star in the upcoming second season of Hulu's Castle Rock per The Hollywood Reporter.
Additionally, Yusra Warsama (Our Girl, Assassin's Creed: Origins), Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips, Blade Runner 2049) and Matthew Alan (13 Reasons Why, Lovecraft Country, Snowfall) have joined the Misery-themed anthology as series regulars.
Season 2 will explore a feud between warring clans that comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes (Caplan), Stephen King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.
Lizzy Caplan will play Annie Wilkes is a nurse and superfan battling to overcome mental health issues.
Tim Robbins will play Reginald "Pop" Merrill. The Patriarch of Stephen King's iconic crime family, Pop is dying of cancer and at a reckoning with his family.
Garrett Hedlund will play John "Ace" Merril. Castle Rock's legendary bully, Ace is taking over his uncle Pop's businesses and threatening a fragile peace with nearby Jerusalem's Lot.
Elsie Fisher will play Joy. Annie's home-schooled teenage daughter, Joy is starting to have questions about her mother's sanity.
Yusra Warsama will play Dr. Nadia Omar. The Harvard-trained Somali medical director of a rural hospital in Jerusalem's Lot, Dr. Omar's rational and scientific mind will be put to the test.
Barkhad Abdi will play Abdi Omar. The tough, older brother of Nadia, Abdi leads the charge to build a Somali community center that will deepen the roots of his people in Maine.
Matthew Alan will play Chris Merrill. Pop's nephew and Ace's brother, Chris struggles to keep peace between the Merrills and the Somali community.
