{"id":627221,"date":"2026-05-06T17:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627221\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:13:09","slug":"wnba-star-angel-mccoughtry-sets-cast-for-bolted-with-sharon-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627221\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Angel McCoughtry Sets Cast For Bolted With Sharon Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: WNBA star Angel McCoughtry<\/a> has set the cast for her upcoming feature directorial debut, the psychological thriller Bolted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama follows a group of strangers who find themselves in a sealed, high-tech facility in L.A. with no memory of how they arrived. As paranoia intensifies and reality begins to fracture, each individual is forced to confront hidden truths, buried connections, and a sinister force that seems to know them better than they know themselves.<\/p>\n

\n\tUK journalist, TV presenter and producer Sharon Carpenter has signed for the lead role in her biggest film and TV role to date after appearing in James Gunn\u2019s\u00a0Superman, The Lazarus Project and Empire<\/p>\n

\n\tShe plays protagonist Blue, aka \u201cLady Blue,\u201d a highly skilled and disciplined police officer driven by her duty to protect. As a supernatural force begins to distort her reality, she is forced to confront deeply buried guilt that threatens to unravel her sense of control.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarpenter is joined by Destin Tucker<\/a>, seen recently alongside \u00a0O\u2019Shea Jackson Jr. in \u00a0the L.A. Rams commercial Thursday, a reimagining of the 1995 comedy hit Friday starring their fathers Ice Cube and Chris Tucker.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Bolted, Tucker plays Josh, a \u00a0haunting manifestation of guilt tied to a teenage boy killed in a police shooting. Appearing as a cryptic psychic presence, Josh serves as both a warning and a reckoning, embodying consequences Blue cannot escape.<\/p>\n

\n\tEetired boxer-turned-actor Umar Sadiq playing Blue\u2019s husband, whose warmth, humor, and unwavering support represent the life and stability Blue risks losing as her reality fractures. <\/p>\n

\n\tMarley Goldberg takes on the role of Billy, a streetwise yet vulnerable teenager who becomes trapped alongside Blue. While his bravado initially masks fear, Billy ultimately reveals unexpected courage, emerging as an unlikely ally as danger escalates.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will shoot in L.A. this June in what will be a milestone moment for McCoughtry as the top 25 WNBA Player of All Time and two-time Olympic gold medalist continues to expand her footprint in entertainment through her company McCoughtry Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt follows hot on the heels of her debut short film Bygones, about a young basketball player who\u2019s lost her confidence and a former coach with a complicated past who becomes her mentor, which premiered on Prime Video in February.<\/p>\n

\n\tSadiq and Goldberg are represented by The Firm LA Model & Talent. McCoughtry is also repped by Adam Griffin and Mike Staudt at Vault Entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: WNBA star Angel McCoughtry has set the cast for her upcoming feature directorial debut, the psychological thriller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[96171,271316,271317,99,434],"class_list":["post-627221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-mccoughtry","tag-bolted","tag-destin-tucker","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627221","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=627221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}