According to Deadline, Mamie Gummer, Caitlin FitzGerald and Candice King have been cast for leading roles in Prime Video’s upcoming thriller drama We Were Liars, based on E. Lockhart’s 2014 novel of the same name.
This marks King’s reunion project with series creator Julie Plec, after seven years since The Vampire Diaries had ended its 8-season run on The CW. Gummer, FitzGerald and King have been tapped to play sisters from a wealthy and seemingly perfect family.
Listed below are the full character descriptions of their respective roles:
- Gummer’s Carrie Sinclair – the eldest daughter of a wealthy media mogul. Carrie thinks of herself as free-spirited, but her bohemian sweaters are the finest cashmere, her funky jewelry made of ancient jade. She was once the most rebellious of her sisters, but her wild days are seemingly over. She loves her two sons ferociously, but during a turbulent summer on her parents’ private island, her sobriety, and her ability to be a stable force in her boys’ lives is threatened.
- FitzGerald’s Penny Sinclair – is the cool and polished sister, whose favorite snack is exactly six unsalted almonds, and her expensive athletic wear always matches. She breeds golden retrievers and finds it much easier to connect to dogs than to people — undoubtedly a contributing factor in the messy divorce she’s currently navigating. Her sense of self-worth is a house of cards built on her family’s wealth and power — and she will seemingly do anything to maintain it.
- King’s Bess Sinclair – is the youngest Sinclair sister. Bess never has a hair out of place, and if she gets her way (which she usually does) her three children wouldn’t, either. She sits on five philanthropic boards, never misses a PTA meeting, and is happily married to a man her father deems worthy of the family dynasty. At least, they seem happy, posing together in the Boston society pages. This summer, her perfect family image is dangerously close to shattering… and it may be all her fault.
Who’s involved in We Were Liars?
Set on a privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts, We Were Liars is being described as a tragic love story and an amnesia thriller. The TV adaptation is written and executive produced by Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie. It is a production by Universal Television and Amazon MGM Studios, with Emily Cummins and Lockhart executive producing.
