{"id":377552,"date":"2026-04-13T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377552\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:02:07","slug":"talia-ryder-replaces-sophie-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377552\/","title":{"rendered":"Talia Ryder Replaces Sophie Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA new \u201cMr. &amp; Mrs. Smith\u201d are finally in action, as Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video series has started production after a monthslong delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAccording to sources, Talia Ryder has replaced Sophie Thatcher in the lead role. She will star opposite \u201cAnora\u201d breakout Mark Eydelshteyn, who was previously announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAmazon Prime Video declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe two take over the roles from Erskine and Donald Glover, who anchored the series\u2019 New York-set first season. Anna Ouyang Moench\u00a0(\u201cSeverance,\u201d \u201cBeef\u201d) has also taken the reins from Francesca Sloane as showrunner and writer. This next installment is shooting in Los Angeles after the production received a $22.4M tax credit from the California Film Commission to relocate. The season was initially set to film in fall 2025 but was put on an <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/mr-and-mrs-smith-season-2-delayed-amazon-1236515232\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indefinite delay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe first season ended with a cliffhanger, leaving the fates of Erskine and Glovers\u2019 characters in limbo. But Variety <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/news\/mr-and-mrs-smith-renewed-season-2-amazon-donald-glover-maya-erskine-not-returning-1236001635\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported in 2024<\/a> that the two actors would not be at the center of the next season of the show, which would take on more of an anthology format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRyder is known for her roles in \u201cNever Rarely Sometimes Always,\u201d \u201cThe Sweet East\u201d and \u201cDo Revenge.\u201d While no additional cast except for Eydelshteyn has been announced by Amazon, it is likely the second season of \u201cMr. &amp; Mrs. Smith\u201d will feature an eye-popping list of guest stars. The globe-trotting Season 1 featured Paul Dano, John Turturro, Michaela Coel, Sarah Paulson, Parker Posey, Wagner Moura, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez, Sharon Horgan and Ron Perlman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCreated by Glover and Sloane, \u201cMr. &amp; Mrs. Smith\u201d is inspired by the 2005 film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. (In the show, it is two strangers who are paired up as partners in espionage, rather than a married couple.) The series earned 16 Emmy nominations and won two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show is executive produced by Moench, Glover, Yariv Milchan, Michael Schaefer, Stephen Glover, Anthony Katagas, Fam Udeorji and Season 1 star Erskine, who boarded as an EP for Season 2. It\u2019s produced by Amazon MGM Studios and New Regency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new \u201cMr. &amp; Mrs. Smith\u201d are finally in action, as Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,196788,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-377552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mr-mrs-smith","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}