{"id":899029,"date":"2026-10-29T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899029\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:28:09","slug":"fx-pilot-starring-havana-rose-liu-adds-five-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899029\/","title":{"rendered":"FX Pilot Starring Havana Rose Liu Adds Five To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: FX<\/a> has added five to the cast of its untitled crime drama pilot from writer-EPs Charles Yu and Julia Cho: Jun Che<\/a> (The Fall of the House of Usher), Sean Kaufman<\/a> (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Fala Chen<\/a> (Ballad of a Small Player), Leah Dou<\/a> (Bipolar) and Kheng Hua Tan<\/a> (Crazy Rich Asians).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actors join the previously announced Havana Rose Liu; there\u2019s no word yet on their roles.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeveloped from an original story by Wong Kar Wai, who exec produces, the pilot revolves around a petty criminal who inherits a share in a mysterious and powerful corporation. She then vaults into a world of unimaginable wealth but also constant danger from a ruthless elite who sees her as the ultimate threat. The pilot comes from FX Productions and Searchlight Television and just began shooting in Bangkok.<\/p>\n

\n\tFresh off a pair of Emmy wins for the hit Apple series Widow\u2019s Bay, where he\u2019s director-EP, Hiro Murai directs. Co-writers Yu and Cho exec produce alongside Murai, Carver Karaszewski, Claudia Shin, Kate Dean, Paul Schwartzman and Wong.<\/p>\n

\n\tChe, formerly Daniel Jun, is a Korean Canadian actor who\u2019s been seen on shows like Doc (Fox), The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix) and American Gods (Starz). A former ROKMC marine, as well as a graduate of McGill University and an alumnus of the CFC Actors Conservatory, he began his career as a professional dancer, performing with Cirque du Soleil and Canadian street dance collective Symbiotic Monsters, before transitioning to acting. He is repped by Artium Talent and The Characters Talent Agency.<\/p>\n

\n\tKaufman broke out with his role of Steven in the hit Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty and will return for the upcoming film continuation. Most recently seen on Apple\u2019s For All Mankind, he stars opposite Matt Damon in Daniels\u2019 untitled film for Universal, releasing next November, and will soon begin production on Si\u00e2n Heder\u2019s Paramount film adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s bestseller Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. He is repped by CESD Talent Agency, Untitled and Adam Cooper from Jackoway Austen Tyerman.<\/p>\n

\n\tChen recently appeared opposite Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton in Edward Berger\u2019s Ballad of a Small Player and debuted Bloodline, a short film she wrote and directed, at TIFF. Her body of work also includes Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, HBO\/A24\u2019s Irma Vep, Marvel\u2019s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and HBO\u2019s The Undoing. She is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and JSSK.<\/p>\n

\n\tDou is a Chinese singer-songwriter, music producer and actress whose film and TV credits include Bipolar (\u53ea\u662f\u2f00\u6b21\u5076\u7136\u7684\u65c5\u2f8f), the series Her (\u5979\u7684\u2f63\u5b58\u4e4b\u9053), for which she won Best New Actress at the Busan Streaming Festival\u2019s Global OTT Awards, and The Eleventh Chapter (\u7b2c\u2f17\u2f00\u56de), for which she received the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Beijing Film Festival. She is repped by Grey Waters Limited.<\/p>\n

\n\tTan is best known for her scene-stealing performance as Constance Wu\u2019s mother, Kerry Chu, in the groundbreaking Warner Bros.\u2019 hit Crazy Rich Asians. Other credits include the CW series Kung Fu, Netflix\u2019s Marco Polo and Paramount+\u2019s animated feature The Tiger\u2019s Apprentice, to name a few. She is repped by Arise Artists Agency and Zero Gravity Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: FX has added five to the cast of its untitled crime drama pilot from writer-EPs Charles Yu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,78378,11492,376735,376736,376737,242052,92],"class_list":["post-899029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-fala-chen","tag-fx","tag-jun-che","tag-kheng-hua-tan","tag-leah-dou","tag-sean-kaufman","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899029","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=899029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}