{"id":625226,"date":"2026-09-23T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625226\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:28:16","slug":"the-testaments-season-2-adds-deborah-ann-woll-luke-kirby-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625226\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Testaments’ Season 2 Adds Deborah Ann Woll & Luke Kirby To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The Testaments<\/a>, the series following up Hulu<\/a>\u2018s hit Margaret Atwood adaptation The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, has added Deborah Ann Woll<\/a> (Daredevil: Born Again) as a recurring guest star and Luke Kirby<\/a> (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) as guest star for its second season.<\/p>\n

\n\tWoll plays Sylvia, whose work as a seamstress keeps her in close proximity to the Wives and daughters of Gilead\u2019s Commanders.<\/p>\n

\n\tKirby plays the literal-minded Commander Fletcher, who lives as a recluse on a farm in one of Gilead\u2019s Colonies, where his eccentricities have made it difficult to find a wife.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis follows our scoop<\/a> that Charlie Carrick, who plays Gilead\u2019s Commander Judd, has been upped to series regular for Season 2, with Haley Wong coming aboard for the series-regular role of the dutiful and pregnant wife Prudence.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Atwood\u2019s Booker Prize-winning novel 2019 novel, The Testaments is a dramatic coming-of-age story set in the totalitarian theocracy of Gilead that follows young teens Agnes (Chase Infiniti) dutiful and pious, and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead\u2019s borders. As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia\u2019s elite preparatory school for future wives, a place where obedience is instilled brutally and always with divine justification, their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, their present, and their future.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnn Dowd reprises her Handmaid\u2019s Tale role of Aunt Lydia.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Testaments is created by showrunner Bruce Miller (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale), who exec produces alongside Warren Littlefield, Handmaid\u2019s star Elisabeth Moss, Steve Stark, Maya Goldsmith, John Weber, Sheila Hockin, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, Mike Barker, Lindsey McManus, Gianna Sobol, and Priscilla Porianda. The series is produced by MGM Television and 20th Television.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 1 premiered in April, with production on Season 2 commencing in August.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show\u2019s cast also includes Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Rowan Blanchard, Mattea Conforti, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies and Kira Guloien.<\/p>\n

\n\tRecently seen reprising her role of Karen Page, friend and ally to Matt Murdock (aka Daredevil) in Marvel Television\u2019s Daredevil: Born Again \u2014 a role she first played in the 2015 series Daredevil \u2014 Woll is otherwise best known for starring in HBO\u2019s True Blood. She is repped by Matt Luber & Michael Adler from Luber Roklin Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tKirby is best known for starring roles in Prime Video\u2019s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and has more recently seen opposite Jennifer Garner in the second season of Apple TV\u2019s The Last Thing He Told Me. Next up, he\u2019ll be seen in Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent Season 4, premiering October 1. His upcoming film projects include the MRC erotic thriller Mother\u2019s Helper<\/a> (with Shailene Woodley), indie comedy Close to Nowhere<\/a> (with SNL\u2018s Veronika Slowikowska) and Netflix\u2019s Better Than the Movies<\/a>. He is repped by Gersh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The Testaments, the series following up Hulu\u2018s hit Margaret Atwood adaptation The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, has added Deborah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[282703,146,6622,85,46,282704,118152,411],"class_list":["post-625226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-deborah-ann-woll","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-luke-kirby","tag-the-testaments","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}