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Jeffrey Wright (“Casino Royale”), Rodrigo Santoro (“300”), Shannon Woodward (“Raising Hope”), Ingrid Bolso Berdal (“Hercules”), Angela Sarafyan (“Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2”) and Simon Quarterman (“The Devil Inside”) have joined the cast of HBO’s “Westworld”.
The assemblage of actors join Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood in the series, inspired by Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same name.
The Hollywood Reporter have the details on who each will play :
Hopkins stars as Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant, taciturn and complicated creative director, chief programmer and chairman of the board of Westworld, who has an uncompromising creative vision for the park — and unorthodox methods of achieving it. Evan Rachel Wood portrays Dolores Abernathy, the quintessential farm girl of the frontier West — who is about to discover that her entire idyllic existence is an elaborately constructed lie.
Joining Hopkins and Wood are Jeffrey Wright (Boardwalk Empire), Rodrigo Santoro (Lost), Shannon Woodward (Raising Hope), Ingrid Bolso Berdal (Hercules), Angela Sarafyan (Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part 2)and Simon Quarterman.
Wright will play Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head of the park’s programming division. His keen observation of human nature provides him with boundless inspiration for his life’s work — creating artificial people.
Santoro (Focus’ Dominion) is set as the terrifying and brutal with a dark sense of humor Harlan Bell, Westworld’s perennial “most wanted” bandit. He subscribes to the theory that the West is a wild place, and the only way to survive is to embrace the role of predator.
Woodward, marking her first regular role since Fox’s Raising Hope, is Elsie King, a sardonic rising star in the programming division charged with diagnosing the odd quirks of behaviors in the park’s hosts.
Berdal will portray Armistice, a savage fighter and brutal bandit whose ruthlessness with her victims is surpassed only by her abiding loyalty to her fellow outlaws.
Sarafyan is set as Clementine Pennyfeather, one of Westworld’s most popular attractions, every aspect of Clementine is perfectly beguiling, by design.
Quarterman rounds out the new additions as Lee Sizemore, the narrative director of Westworld, whose inspired storylines consistently delight or terrify the guests — and his artistic temperament consistently grates on his colleagues.
“Westworld” is made up of a great behind-the-scenes cast too, including J.J Abrams and Jonathan Nolan.
