{"id":559712,"date":"2026-07-20T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559712\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:18:07","slug":"josh-lucas-joins-nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-in-discretion-exclu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559712\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Lucas Joins Nicole Kidman &#038; Elle Fanning In &#8216;Discretion&#8217; (Exclu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/josh-lucas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_josh-lucas\" data-tag=\"josh-lucas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Lucas<\/a> (Yellowstone, Ford v Ferrari) is set to star opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nicole-kidman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicole-kidman\" data-tag=\"nicole-kidman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Kidman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elle-fanning\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elle-fanning\" data-tag=\"elle-fanning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elle Fanning<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/discretion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_discretion\" data-tag=\"discretion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Discretion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount-2\" data-tag=\"paramount-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a>\u2018s upcoming legal thriller series from A24. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLucas will play Greg, a lawyer and the husband of Kidman\u2019s powerful and formidable corporate law partner at the same prestigious firm entangled in a dark web of NDAs. Fanning plays Lenny, a summer associate who realizes she is bound by the exact non-disclosure agreement she is investigating, upending her mentor-prot\u00e9g\u00e9 dynamic with Kidman\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten and executive produced by Chandler Baker and executive produced by Susannah Grant, Discretion was the first big buy for Paramount+\u2019s new regime following Paramount\u2019s acquisition by Skydance; the streamer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/discretion-paramount-plus-nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-chandler-baker-1236568187\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landed the project in October<\/a> after a bidding war with a straight-to-series order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe eight-episode drama series will begin production later this year and launch on Paramount+ next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso executive producing Discretion are Kidman and Per Saari via Blossom Films; Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward for Lewellen Pictures; Joe Hipps via Cut To; and Jordan Cerf of Linden Entertainment. A24, where Cut To is based, is the studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLucas most recently starred opposite Kristen Wiig in Apple TV\u2019s comedy series Palm Royale and will next be seen in Paramount Pictures\u2019 Western action thriller The Rescue. He is repped by WME and Liebman Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Josh Lucas (Yellowstone, Ford v Ferrari) is set to star opposite Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,211767,2979,93,61,60,236623,5479,3282],"class_list":["post-559712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-discretion","tag-elle-fanning","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-josh-lucas","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559712","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=559712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}