Academy Award nominee Annette Bening has officially signed on to join the Lucky cast for Apple TV+‘s upcoming crime drama, based on Marissa Stapley’s best-selling novel of the same name. Bening is expected to portray the role of a dangerous mob leader, named Priscilla.
“The miniseries follows a young woman who left behind the life of crime she was raised in years ago, but must now embrace her darker, criminal side one final time in a desperate attempt to escape her past,” reads the official synopsis.
Who will lead the Lucky cast?
Lucky will be led by Golden Globe winner Anya Taylor-Joy in her first major TV project, after more than four years since starring in Netflix’s acclaimed miniseries The Queen’s Gambit. The upcoming crime drama is created and executive produced by Jonathan Tropper (The Adam Project), who will also serve as a showrunner with Cassie Pappas.
In addition to leading the cast, Taylor-Joy is also executive producing through her LadyKiller banner, alongside Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine. The miniseries is part of Tropper’s overall deal with Apple TV+.
This marks Taylor-Joy’s latest collaboration with Apple TV+, after working together in the upcoming genre-bending sci-fi action movie The Gorge. Besides Lucky, Taylor-Joy is also currently attached to lead the Netflix thriller series How to Kill Your Family, based on Bella Mackie’s 2021 bestselling novel of the same name. She will also next be seen in the action adventure comedy movie Sacrifice, with Chris Evans and Salma Hayek.
