{"id":48399,"date":"2025-07-30T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48399\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:44:08","slug":"free-bert-casts-matthew-del-negro-robert-mello-braxton-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48399\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Free Bert&#8217; Casts Matthew Del Negro, Robert Mello &#038; Braxton Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>\u2018s six-episode comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/free-bert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_free-bert\" data-tag=\"free-bert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free Bert<\/a>, co-created by and starring comedian Bert Kreischer, has added three more in recurring roles: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matthew-del-negro\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matthew-del-negro\" data-tag=\"matthew-del-negro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Del Negro<\/a> (Neagley), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/robert-mello\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robert-mello\" data-tag=\"robert-mello\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Mello<\/a> (Killing It), and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/braxton-alexander\/\" id=\"auto-tag_braxton-alexander\" data-tag=\"braxton-alexander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braxton Alexander<\/a> (The Righteous Gemstones).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCharacter details are under wraps. As previously announced, Arden Myrin also stars in the series, alongside newcomers Ava Ryan and Lilou Lang, with Mandell Maughan, Chris Witaske, Christine Horn, and Sophia Reid-Gantzert aboard as recurring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKreischer exec produces and stars as himself \u2014 shirtless comedian, party legend, perpetual wildcard \u2014 in Free Bert, where he finds himself in uncharted territory when his daughters are accepted to an elite Beverly Hills private school. When his unbridled antics turn his family into outcasts, he decides to \u201cput on a shirt\u201d and stifle his true nature to better fit in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel (Huge in France, The Grinder) co-created the show alongside Kreischer, also exec producing and serving as writers, directors and showrunners. Other EPs include Kreischer\u2019s wife, LeeAnn Kreischer; Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, and Elise Henderson for Counterpart Studios; and Judi Marmel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKnown for turns on shows like City on a Hill, Scandal, The Sopranos, and The West Wing, Del Negro has recently appeared in Peacock\u2019s Long Bright River and Paramount+\u2019s Mayor of Kingstown. Upcoming, he\u2019ll be seen in Prime Video\u2019s Reacher spin-off Neagley, Amazon MGM\u2019s crime thriller Crime 101, and more. He is repped by Buchwald, Berwick &amp; Kovacik, and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeen on shows like Sistas, Candy, Killing It and The Resident, along with films like The Beanie Bubble, Mello is repped by Atlanta Models and Talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlexander\u2019s recent credits include The Righteous Gemstones, The Summer I Turned Pretty, and Black Bird. He is repped by CESD, Privilege Talent, and Luber Roklin Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Netflix\u2018s six-episode comedy Free Bert, co-created by and starring comedian Bert Kreischer, has added three more in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[37673,88,37674,37675,217,37676,92],"class_list":["post-48399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-braxton-alexander","tag-entertainment","tag-free-bert","tag-matthew-del-negro","tag-netflix","tag-robert-mello","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}