TV Line reports that actor Dougray Scott will be joining the cast of AMC’s The Walking Dead spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead, for its second season in a recurring role.
Scott’s career has spanned over two and a half decades, and just a few of his movie and TV credits include Deep Impact, Mission: Impossible 2, Desperate Housewives, My Week with Marilyn, Hemlock Grove and Taken 3.
The actor’s exact role in the series is being kept under wraps, but the site that broke the news has speculated that he may be playing a character named Casey, due to a recent casting breakdown. The breakdown describes him as “a decent man who believes in civility… [and] is still learning to be a leader. He regrets but accepts the necessary violence for a new vision.”
While reviews for Fear the Walking Dead in its debut season weren’t as positive as those The Walking Dead usually pulls in from critics, the show still managed to find its audience thanks to The Walking Dead’s popularity, bringing in an average of 7.6 million viewers an episode.
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Season one left off with Madison (Kim Dickens), Travis (Cliff Curtis) and their extended family taking temporary shelter in Strand’s (Colman Domingo) gated estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As civil unrest continues to grow and the dead take over Los Angeles, Strand prepares to escape to “Abigail,” his large yacht moored offshore.
“Fear the Walking Dead” takes us back to the beginning of the zombie apocalypse – a time when the world was changing rapidly for reasons unknown, before anyone understood exactly what was happening, when life as everyone knew it was upended and altered in ways no one could have ever imagined. “Fear the Walking Dead” stars Kim Dickens as Madison, Cliff Curtis as Travis, Frank Dillane as Nick, Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia, Ruben Blades as Daniel, Mercedes Mason as Ofelia, Lorenzo James Henrie as Chris and Colman Domingo as Strand.
Production is currently underway on the show’s second season, which will consist of 15 episodes (as opposed to the first season’s six) and be split into two parts. Scott will appear alongside Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Lorenzo James Henrie, Ruben Blades, Mercedes Mason, Colman Domingo and Daniel Zovatto. As of now, the premiere date is set for April 10, 2016.
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Originally published February 5, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
