{"id":518105,"date":"2026-06-25T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518105\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:52:12","slug":"prime-videos-we-were-liars-season-2-sets-8-for-recurring-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518105\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video’s ‘We Were Liars’ Season 2 Sets 8 For Recurring Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Prime Video<\/a>\u2018s We Were Liars<\/a> has added 8 new actors to its recurring cast: Riley Voelkel, Madeleine Arthur, Jaelynn Thora Brooks, Layla Douglas, Callan Potter, Aidan Shaw, Shaun Sipos, and Brendon Tremblay.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, Emerson MacNeil will return in the recurring role of Bonnie, Manaia Wall as Liberty, Andrew Moodie as Thatcher, Brady Doulis as Will, Charlie Carrick as Sam, and Dylan Bruce as Brody Sheffield.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on E. Lockhart\u2019s YA novel of the same name, We Were Liars\u00a0is a tragic love story and an amnesia thriller set on a privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts. It centers on the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family, who spend every summer on their private island.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Season 2, In an effort to confront her truth, Cadence (Emily Alyn Lind) returns to Beechwood. As she digs deeper into family secrets, she learns about the Sinclair Sisters\u2019 summer of 1999 \u2014 a summer rife with first love, rivalry, and even murder. In flashbacks, we see Carrie (Mamie Gummer), Penny (Caitlin FitzGerald), and Bess (Candice King) navigate their own teenage summer, as they come to terms with their past in the present day.<\/p>\n

\n\tA list of the new cast members and who they will play can be found below.<\/p>\n

\n\tVoelkel\u00a0as Adult Yardley, who is seen in the present day. After years of exile, the elegant, magnetic Sinclair cousin has returned to Beechwood \u2014 and this time, she\u2019s here to raise hell.<\/p>\n

\n\tArthur as Young Yardley, the Sinclair sisters\u2019 magnetic, worldly, and elegant-beyond-her-years cousin. Yardley has always brought the magic to Beechwood Island \u2014 but this year, she brought boys.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrooks as Erin Riegert, a school friend, who was invited to visit the Sinclairs for the summer. Erin is deeply empathetic and highly perceptive \u2014 two qualities that don\u2019t necessarily serve her well on Beechwood Island.<\/p>\n

\n\tDougles as Rosemary, the youngest Sinclair, Rosemary is curious, whimsical, and sassy. She spends her summers playing mermaids with her sisters\u2014but this year, she\u2019s experiencing her first deep pangs of loneliness as the older girls turn their attention away from her and toward the crop of boys visiting the island.<\/p>\n

\n\tPotter as Gideon, the most sought-after tennis coach on the island. Gideon is a former Ivy League golden boy who fits right in with the Martha\u2019s Vineyard elite. The married women swoon, their husbands invite him to their poker tables, and no one suspects his more sinister intentions.<\/p>\n

\n\tShaw as George Bryce-Amory, who hails from a well-heeled Texas oil family. George is big-hearted, loyal as a golden retriever, and completely devoted to Yardley. What he lacks in New England yacht club polish, he offers in testosterone, entitlement, and the ability to shotgun a beer.<\/p>\n

\n\tSipos as Dean, the life of the party, confident bordering on cocky. Harris\u2019 brother Dean is not only heir to generational wealth, but an influential Democrat with an eye on a senate seat\u2014though he struggles to keep his skeletons from tumbling out of their closets.<\/p>\n

\n\tTremblay as \u00a0Jeremy \u201cMajor\u201d Majorino, a New Yorker with open-minded \u201chippie parents.\u201d Jeremy is observant, jovial, and finds the Sinclairs\u2019 world fascinating. He\u2019s thrilled to be along for the ride on his buddy\u2019s impromptu summer vacation \u2014 for more reasons than one.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe Were Liars\u00a0Season Two is written and executive produced by co-showrunners Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries, Legacies) and Carina Adly MacKenzie (Roswell, New Mexico, The Originals). Also executive producing are Emily Cummins (The Endgame, Vampire Academy) for My So-Called Company, Brett Matthews (Legacies),\u00a0 Marguerite MacIntyre (Vampire Academy)\u00a0and the novel\u2019s author, E. Lockhart. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amazon MGM Studios are behind the project. The novel is published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children\u2019s Books.<\/p>\n

\n\tVoelkel is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency and Vault Entertainment; Arthur by Gersh; MoGood Talent Management; Brave Artists Management; Brooks by Characters Talent Agency and Amplifie; Douglas by The Characters Talent Agency; Potter by The Talent House and and David Dean Management; Shaw by ART Agency; Sipos by The Characters Talent Agency; Mosaic Media Group; Tremblay by The Characters Talent Agency, Luber Roklin Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video\u2018s We Were Liars has added 8 new actors to its recurring cast: Riley Voelkel, Madeleine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,12867,282,17361],"class_list":["post-518105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-prime-video","tag-tv","tag-we-were-liars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}