{"id":136417,"date":"2025-09-12T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136417\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:12:08","slug":"presumed-innocent-season-2-casts-matthew-rhys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136417\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Presumed Innocent’ Season 2 Casts Matthew Rhys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMatthew Rhys<\/a> is the latest addition to the cast of \u201cPresumed Innocent<\/a>\u201d Season 2, Variety has learned. <\/p>\n

\n\tRhys will appear in the second season of the legal drama alongside previously announced lead Rachel Brosnahan<\/a>. The first season of the series, which debuted in 2024, was based on the book of the same name by Scott Turow. The second season will be based on the book \u201cDissection of a Murder\u201d by Jo Murray, which is due to be published in 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tExact plot and character details are being kept under wraps, but the description from publisher Pan Macmillan states, \u201cWhen Leila Reynolds (Brosnahan) is handed her first murder case, she\u2019s shocked at how high-profile it is: the murder of a well-respected, well-known judge. This shouldn\u2019t be the kind of case she\u2019s leading; it\u2019s way beyond her expertise. But the defendant, Jack Millman, is clear. He wants her, and only her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks the second Apple TV+<\/a> role for Rhys, as he is set to star in the upcoming series \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d<\/a> for the streamer. He will also star opposite John Krasinski in \u201cSilent River\u201d for Amazon Prime Video, <\/a>and will be seen in the Netflix series \u201cThe Beast in Me\u201d in November. Rhys\u2019 other recent credits include \u201cTowards Zero\u201d for BritBox and BBC1 and the films \u201cSaturday Night\u201d and \u201cHallow Road.\u201d Rhys is perhaps best known for his starring role in the FX Cold War spy drama \u201cThe Americans,\u201d for which he won an Emmy Award in 2018. He also starred in HBO\u2019s \u201cPerry Mason\u201d series for two seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and United Agents. <\/p>\n

\n\tDavid E. Kelley developed \u201cPresumed Innocent\u201d for television and serves as executive producer and co-showrunner under his David E. Kelley Productions (DEKP) banner. Erica Lipez will also serve as co-showrunner and executive producer on Season 2. J.J. Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich executive produce for Bad Robot Productions. Matthew Tinker of DEKP also executive produces. Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred in Season 1, will executive produce via Nine Stories. Dustin Thomason also serves as executive producer along with Brosnahan. Turow is a co-executive producer, as is Murray. Warner Bros. Television is the studio.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPresumed Innocent\u201d Season 1 debuted to critical and popular acclaim when it launched in June 2024. The first season has received four Emmy nominations \u2014 best lead actor in a limited or anthology series (Gyllenhaal), best supporting actor in a limited or anthology series (Bill Camp & Peter Sarsgaard), and best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series (Ruth Negga). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Rhys is the latest addition to the cast of \u201cPresumed Innocent\u201d Season 2, Variety has learned. Rhys…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[23083,64,63,134,93941,29396,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-136417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-matthew-rhys","13":"tag-presumed-innocent","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}