{"id":600329,"date":"2026-09-14T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600329\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:00:09","slug":"this-summer-will-be-different-malin-akerman-megan-follows-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600329\/","title":{"rendered":"‘This Summer Will Be Different’: Malin Akerman & Megan Follows Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNetflix<\/a> is rounding out the cast of This Summer Will Be Different<\/a>, its series adaptation of Carley Fortune\u2019s best-selling novel, with some familiar faces and a touch of Anne of Green Gables<\/a>, which inspired the book.<\/p>\n

\n\tJoining the ensemble are Malin Akerman<\/a> (The Hunting Wives, Billions) as \u201cAunt Stacy\u201d, Megan Follows<\/a> (Buried in Barstow) as \u201cCheryl\u201d, Nadine Bhabha (Heated Rivalry, Slo Pitch) as \u201cFarah\u201d, and Matias Lucas (The Order) as \u201cCarter\u201d in the Prince Edward Island-set contemporary romance.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast also includes Jordan Rodrigues as Miles Lam, Jude Wilson as Zach, Natalie Brown as Christine, James Tupper as Ken, Tom Barnett as Peter and Celia Owen as Joy.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Fortune\u2019s third novel, which published May 7, 2024, This Summer Will Be Different stretches across multiple summers on Prince Edward Island where Lucy \u201cBee\u201d Ashby (Sophie N\u00e9lisse) visits with her best friend Bridget (Francesca Reale). Lucy has feelings for Bridget\u2019s brother Felix (Roby Attal), the one person she\u2019s forbidden from falling for.<\/p>\n

\n\tDane Clark (Suze, One More Time) and Linsey Stewart (Workin\u2019 Moms, North of North) created the series and serve as showrunners. Clark and Stewart also executive produce alongside Carley Fortune (Every Summer After, Our Perfect Storm), and Jennifer Kawaja (Sort Of, Wayward), Elise Cousineau (Cardinal, Small Achievable Goals) and Samantha Levine for Sphere Media.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show has wrapped filming on Prince Edward Island and is now filming in Toronto. This Summer Will Be Different joins Netflix\u2019s growing Canadian slate including North of North, Wayward, Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, BELOW and The Granville Girls.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Netflix Assembles YA Stars Past, Present & Future For End Of Summer Bash Event To Reassert Presence In The Genre<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAkerman was most recently seen in the Netflix series The Hunting Wives playing \u201cMargo Banks\u201d. Season 2 of the series comes out November 26. Follows is best known for her starring role as \u201cAnne Shirley\u201d in Anne of Green Gables, and she also recently appeared in the first season of Little House on the Prairie<\/a> as Laura (Alice Halsey) and Mary\u2019s (Skywalker Hughes) grandmother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is rounding out the cast of This Summer Will Be Different, its series adaptation of Carley Fortune\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[295896,156,75665,295897,1094,111,139,69,295898,437],"class_list":["post-600329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-anne-of-green-gables","tag-entertainment","tag-malin-akerman","tag-megan-follows","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-this-summer-will-be-different","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600329","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=600329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}