4-time Emmy Award winner Laura Linney (Ozark) has been tapped as the feminine lead reverse Kevin Kline and Jon Tenney in American Traditional, MGM+‘s upcoming half-hour comedy sequence from co-creators Michael Hoffman and Bob Martin and Fifth Season, with Mar-Key Footage, Seemingly Story and Nameless Content material producing.
American Traditional facilities on Broadway star and infamous narcissist Richard Bean (Kline), who suffers a spectacular public meltdown and returns to his hometown and the family-run theater the place he first turned conscious of his personal brilliance. When he arrives, he’s shocked to find that his father, the previous inventive director, has misplaced a step and that the once-respected theater, now run by his brother Jon (Tenney) and his spouse Kristen (Linney) has turn out to be, by necessity, a low-rent dinner theater serving roast beef and homicide mysteries. He decides to avoid wasting the city, the theater, and the world by presenting an ideal American basic on the dinner theater stage, directed by and starring, after all, Richard Bean.
Linney’s Kristen Forrest Bean grew up performing within the Millersburg Pageant Theater based and run by the Bean household. She fell in love with Richard Bean at age 19 and ran off with him to attempt to make it in NY. As soon as there, Richard’s egotism served him higher than Kristen’s quiet depth and it was his profession that took off. Kristen turned more and more annoyed and at last packed up and went dwelling to Millersburg – the place she ultimately married Richard’s youthful brother, Jon, and had their daughter Miranda. Because the not too long ago appointed Mayor of Millersburg, Kristen directs her ardour in addition to her robust sensible aspect towards serving to to maintain the household theater alive.
Manufacturing on the eight-episode American Traditional begins in New Jersey this summer season.
Linney not too long ago starred in and govt produced the hit Netflix drama sequence Ozark, which earned her three performing Emmy nominations along with the Excellent Drama Sequence one she shared in, and within the streamer’s Tales of the Metropolis revival. She gained Emmys for The Massive C, John Adams, Frasier and Wild Iris. In options, the three-time Oscar nominee most not too long ago starred within the 2024 Suncoast, which premiered on the 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant. Linney is repped by CAA, Lighthouse Administration & Media, and Kevin Yorn.
