Following his acclaimed American characteristic debut in Anora, Mark Eydelshteyn is about to make an equally high-profile American TV debut because the male lead in Season 2 of Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Eydelshteyn will play the eponymous Mr. Smith. As Deadline reported completely, Billie Eilish had been rumored for the feminine lead, Mrs. Smith, however I hear that didn’t materialize because the Oscar-winning musician is touring.
Amazon MGM Studios, which co-produces the collection with New Regency, had been in search of an actor and actress of their 20s to play John and Jane, respectively, in Season 2 with one-year offers.
Created by Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane, Season 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith adopted two lonely strangers (Glover, Maya Erskine) who need to pose as a married couple as they each start new careers as spies, taking over new aliases, Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission each week whereas additionally dealing with a brand new relationship milestone. Their complicated cowl story turns into much more sophisticated once they catch actual emotions for one another. What’s riskier: espionage or marriage?
The Season 1 finale, which Sloane described to Deadline as a “nod to a’ 70s cinema cliffhanger,” concerned John and Jane getting right into a gunfight, leaving it unclear whether or not the 2 survive.
When requested in a Deadline interview whether or not Mr. & Mrs. Smith could also be taking the anthology collection route with a unique story and totally different characters every season within the vein of Fargo, which Sloane had labored on, she responded, succinctly, “possibly.”
That has been a rumored system for Amazon’s tackle the New Regency-produced 2005 film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, with one-year commitments for the leads every season.
The new Jane and John are believed to be totally different characters, not replacements for those performed by Glover and Erskine in Season 1. That signifies that Glover and Erskine may conceivably reprise their roles in some form or type, whether or not their characters are lifeless or alive. (The setup of Mr. & Mrs. Smith makes issues complicated with a number of Janes and Johns featured on the espionage-driven present.)
Sloane returns as govt producer and showrunner for Season 2; Glover is again as govt producer. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is produced by New Regency and Amazon MGM Studios.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith premiered in February and have become a Top 5 new collection debut for Prime Video within the United States at the moment. Entered as a drama collection on the 2024 Emmys, it landed 16 nominations, together with Outstanding Drama Series and Lead Actor/Actress In a Drama Series for Glover and Erskine, profitable two trophies, together with Guest Actress In A Drama Series for Michaela Coel. The alternative suggests some continuity between seasons within the vein of The White Lotus.
Russian-born Eydelstheyn first garnered worldwide consideration because the title character within the Russian coming-of-age film Strana Sasha (The Land of Sasha), a Berlinale 2022 Selection. He additionally starred within the 2022 Russian TV collection Monastery earlier than touchdown the function of Ivan ‘Vanya’ Zakharov in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, which has introduced worldwide acclaim to the younger actor, dubbed the “Russian Timothée Chalamet.” Eydelshteyn is repped by Color Creative, Myman Greenspan Fox and Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis.
