{"id":6209,"date":"2025-07-18T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6209\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:18:07","slug":"peacocks-crystal-lake-casts-jason-voorhees-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6209\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacock\u2019s \u2018Crystal Lake\u2019 Casts Jason Voorhees Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/crystal-lake\/\" id=\"auto-tag_crystal-lake_1\" data-tag=\"crystal-lake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Lake<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/friday-13th\/\" id=\"auto-tag_friday-13th_1\" data-tag=\"friday-13th\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday the 13th<\/a> prequel series taking shape at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/peacock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peacock_1\" data-tag=\"peacock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peacock<\/a>, has cast the actor playing Jason \u2014\u00a0who will not be fitted with a hockey mask anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCallum Vinson (Long Bright River, The Night Agent) will play the young Jason in the show. He\u2019s one of five actors who have joined the cast in recurring roles, along with Nick Cordileone,\u00a0Joy Suprano,\u00a0Danielle Kotch\u00a0and Phoenix Parnevik.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe A24-produced Crystal Lake stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/linda-cardellini-crystal-lake-peacock-1236171362\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Cardellini<\/a> as Pamela Voorhees, Jason\u2019s mother, who (45-year-old spoiler alert) is responsible for the killings in the first Friday the 13th movie before her unkillable son Jason takes over. William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins and Gwendolyn Sundstrom will also be series regulars, playing characters named Levon Brooks, Briana Brooks, Dorf and Grace. Details about those characters and the show\u2019s plot are being kept quiet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCordileone (Warrior) will play a character named Ralph.\u00a0Suprano (Fleishman Is in Trouble) will play Rita. Kotch\u00a0(Director\u2019s Cut) is playing Claudette, and Parnevik (Bel-Air) plays a character named Barry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBrad Caleb Kane (It: Welcome to Derry) is the showrunner on Cyrstal Lake; he joined the show in August 2024, following the exit of original writer and showrunner Bryan Fuller, who said in May 2024 that\u00a0A24 \u201cdecided to go a different way with the material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKane executive produces with Marc Toberoff, Victor Miller, Robert M. Barsamian, Robert P. Barsamian, Stuart Manashil, Tyson Bidner, Michael Lennox, who directed the first three episodes. Celine Held &amp; Logan George, and Quyen Tran also directed episodes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Lake, the Friday the 13th prequel series taking shape at Peacock, has cast the actor playing Jason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,6924,75,6925,337,5250],"class_list":{"0":"post-6209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-crystal-lake","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-friday-the-13th","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-peacock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}