Posted on 03/07/2019 5:05:48 PM PST by EdnaMode
NBC’s comedy pilot Sunnyside (formerly Untitled Kal Penn/Matt Murray) has cast the seven co-leads opposite Kal Penn. Kiran Deol, Moses Storm, Diana Maria Riva, Samba Schutte, Poppy Liu, Joel Kim Booster and Tudor Petrut will co-star in the single-camera comedy executive produced by Penn, writer-producer Matt Murray, The Good Place creator/executive producer Michael Schur and Universal TV.
Co-written by Penn and Murray, Sunnyside is named after the neighborhood in the historically diverse Queens borough of New York where the show is set. (The photo above shows Penn spending time in Sunnyside last weekend.) It centers on former New York City Councilman Garrett Shah (Penn), who finds his calling when faced with seven recent immigrants — five of them played by immigrant actors — in need of his help and in search of the American Dream.
The seven recent immigrants are Jin Hao, played by South Korea-born Booster; Mallory, played by UK-born Deol; Mei Lin, played by China-born Liu; Drzen, played by Romania-born Petrut; Hakim, played by Africa-born Schutte; Griselda, played by Riva, a first generation Dominican; and Brady, played by Storm.
Directing the pilot is another immigrant, Oz Rodriguez. The ensemble was put together by casting director Allison Jones who also has worked with Schur on his other shows, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Good Place.
Penn and Murray executive produce alongside Schur — who is supervising via his Fremulon — Dan Spilo of Industry Entertainment and David Miner of 3 Arts Entertainment. Universal TV is the studio.
Deol and Storm also were cast together last year in the Pop TV pilot Arranged. Deol directed the documentary Woman Rebel, which was nominated for an Emmy, shortlisted for an Oscar and distributed by HBO. She also directed American Haze, a documentary about her own family’s immigration story for Sundance Now. Deol is repped by Haven Entertainment, WME, and Cohen Gardner.
Storm is a comedian who recently toured with Conan O’Brien. He is repped by Haven Entertainment, WME and Hansen Jacobson.
Fellow comedian Booster, currently a consulting producer on Netflix’s Big Mouth, is repped by WME; Omnipop and Ginsburg Daniels.
Riva was last seen in the CBS sitcom Man with a Plan and will next appear in the Netflix series Dead to Me and the Apple drama series Morning Show. She’s repped by Kohner Agency, Gateway Management and attorney Robert Myman.
Schutte played a supporting role in the critically acclaimed Netflix film The Tiger Hunter and was a series regular on the Dutch version of The Daily Show called De Nieuwste Show. He’s repped by The Green Room Management, Daniel Hoff Agency, Alvarado Rey and DPN Agency.
Petrut is repped by Amber Management.
If America is so bad why doesn’t Kal return to his shithole country?
Don’t you just love people moving to your country and telling you what it should be like.........
On ‘Designated Survivor’, his character’s name was Seth. Wonder if that had any meaning.
I don’t watch American TV. It’s crap.
I usually watch Korean or Chinese TV. It’s much better.
I think I’ll pass on this one.
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Me too.
Gosh I wonder what the American actors are thinking?
Plus Kal Penn can pay the ‘immigrants’ far less money.
THAT is the real reason.
Last time I came across a photo of Penn, he really porked up.
So, perhaps the low wage savings are to be spent on the craft service table to keep up with Penn's gluttonous gorging?
The African and Limey are a reach but the others are a decent mix of Sunnydiders. Taught there gor 25 years and watched the neighborhood change. Koreans and Chinese and Indians have moved up and on. Tibetans, Bangladeshis, Mexicans and Hondur are the newcomers. What was interesting was the upward mobility of the Asians and their assimilation. The latinos, not as much.
Just Doing the Acting Americans Won’t Do Anymore.
“If America is so bad why doesn’t Kal return to his shithole country?”
All his favorite gay bars are here....
Where’s Harold these days?
Just shows to go ya, it’s not what you know, it’s who you bl*w
Legal or not? If they’re illegal I hope
I hope they have the necessary documents
that allows them access to the US.
If legal, yea. In the overall scheme
of things, if they have talent, they
will be remembered for just that. I
hope it’s not because they are illegal,
and someone is trying to prove a point.
With these smart TVs it’s just so easy to watch YouTube instead.
This is why networks are scrambling to fill the airwaves with otherized trash; they are fighting for the last demographics that even watch network TV. Smart, productive people have just found much better ways to spend their time.
(Last YouTube I watched had some prepper guy showing how to sow stitches; going to try it on a banana peel)
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