{"id":943354,"date":"2026-10-28T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943354\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:58:10","slug":"will-yun-lee-upped-to-series-regular-on-how-to-survive-without-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943354\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Yun Lee Upped To Series Regular On &#8216;How To Survive Without Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/will-yun-lee\/\" id=\"auto-tag_will-yun-lee\" data-tag=\"will-yun-lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Yun Lee<\/a> (The Odyssey, The Good Doctor) has been promoted to series regular in the upcoming family drama series on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo-max\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo-max\" data-tag=\"hbo-max\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/how-to-survive-without-me\/\" id=\"auto-tag_how-to-survive-without-me\" data-tag=\"how-to-survive-without-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How to Survive Without Me<\/a>, from executive producer and writer Greg Berlanti and Berlanti Productions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLee was cast as a guest star in the pilot, playing Dr. Marcus Chen. With an easygoing confidence and calming presence, Chen is the oncologist who treated Beverly after her diagnosis. He continues to lend a comforting ear to certain family members after her passing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHow to Survive Without Me picks up in the wake of matriarch Beverly\u2019s (Rita Wilson) passing, finding that the De Angelis family has begun to drift, unsure how to manage their complicated, evolving lives without her guidance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe cast also includes Ray Romano, Joshua Jackson, Kaley Cuoco, Julia Schlaepfer, Jack Ball, Kylar Miranda, Julian Grey, Scarlett Abinante, Tommy Dewey, Matthew Kellison, Colette Porch, and Ella Rubin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHow to Survive Without Me was ordered to series last month and will consist of 15 episodes. The pilot was written by Berlanti and Bash Doran, with story by Berlanti, Doran, and Robbie Rogers. The studio is Warner Bros. Television. It marks the first show that married couple Berlanti and Rogers have co-created together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLee most recently can be seen opposite Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey. Additional film credits include The Wolverine, Elektra, Red Dawn, Total Recall, San Andreas, Rampage, and Die Another Day. He is widely recognized for his long-running role as Dr. Alex Park on ABC\u2019s The Good Doctor, and also starred as the original Takeshi Kovacs in Netflix\u2019s cyberpunk thriller Altered Carbon. In addition to his work in How to Survive Without Me, he will next be seen in Apple TV\u2019s The Off Weeks, opposite Ben Stiller. Lee is represented by Buchwald and Vault Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Will Yun Lee (The Odyssey, The Good Doctor) has been promoted to series regular in the upcoming family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,17300,463812,427,510285],"class_list":["post-943354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo-max","tag-how-to-survive-without-me","tag-tv","tag-will-yun-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943354","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=943354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}