Netflix has announced a new piece of casting for the upcoming second season of Altered Carbon. Lela Loren (Power) has joined the cast as a series regular for the show’s anticipated return.
Altered Carbon takes place in a future where the human mind can now be digitized and downloaded into a “cortical stack” and placed into new bodies, or sleeves, and follows Takeshi Kovacs, a former soldier who is brought back to life in a new sleeve centuries after his death in order to investigate the attempted murder of the world’s wealthiest man.
Loren will portray Danica Harlan, “the charming and ambitious governor of the planet Harlan’s World who struggles to balance the full-fledged support of the people but with the uneasy grip on the political players around her. The actress has already completed production on her role”.
She joins a large ensemble cast that includes Anthony Mackie (Avengers: Infinity War) as the new sleeve of protagonist Takeshi Kovacs, Simone Missick (Luke Cage) as Trepp, Dina Shihabi (Daredevil) at Dig 301, Torben Liebrecht (Operation Finale) as Colonel Ivan Carrera and James Saito (The Terror) as Tanaseda Hideki as well as returning season one actors Renee Elise Goldsberry (Quellcrist Falconer) and Chris Conner (Poe).
Altered Carbon is said to premiere on Netflix later this year.
