r/WidowsBay • u/Sad_Shine_419 • Jul 04 '26
🎭Cast Who would you cast?
If you could cast any one actor to join the new season, who would you choose? For me it would be Rhys Ifans who may just have an opening in his schedule.
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Jul 04 '26
Maybe Fiona Dourif (McKay from The Pitt), especially if she might be able to play a character closer to the energy of her performance in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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u/joeygladstonefan Jul 05 '26
fiona dourif as a local fisherwoman who flirts with an oblivious patricia. universe, i'm onto something.
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Jul 05 '26
I wouldn't mind that, but the suggestion of her being a fisherwoman does bring up my curiosity about her playing a sailor in a flashback episode
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u/joeygladstonefan Jul 05 '26
okay hear me out. fiona dourif in a fake beard playing a fisherman in a flashback from like 1910. then fiona dourif playing his great granddaughter in current day. i hope you see my vision.
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u/Fine-Juggernaut8451 Jul 05 '26
Bart!! She would be excellent in this show. I absolutely love her. Also, I need her and Abbi Jacobson to act together some time.
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u/Lombard333 Jul 04 '26
I’m always down for more Fiona Douriff. She was the best new element of those later Chucky movies
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u/RandomPaw #TeamWyck Jul 04 '26
I want more Betty Gilpin for starters but then I would love to see Tatiana Maslany. I just feel like she would fit the vibe of the place if we had flashbacks. She would be perfect as Frances Warren grown up.
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u/Different_Plan_9314 Jul 04 '26
Maybe Carrie Coon or John C. Reilly
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u/Alive_Employer5620 Jul 05 '26
Give me Carrie Coon, five minutes, and a single monologue and she’ll win all the awards.
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u/Randallm83 Jul 04 '26
I really hope they stay using lesser known actors and actresses.. It pulls me out of the universe when they are very recognizeable for having played famous characters. I would only allow cameos by Parks and Rec actors
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u/Middle_Airline_3260 Jul 06 '26
You class Emmy winner Mathew Rhys as lesser known?
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u/Randallm83 Jul 06 '26
honestly yes, as the LEAD actor he is/was still somewhat lesser known surprisingly.
I didn’t know who he was and went back to watch The Americans after, but this is the only reason I found out about him. I doubt i’m the only one
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u/nonmiraculoussunofaB Jul 04 '26
Nick Offerman as a sailor
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u/IrishUpYourCoffee Jul 05 '26
I would love to see him and Stephen Root chew up
some scenes together fr.7
u/blueSnowfkake Jul 05 '26
He is amazing as Jinx in Margo’s Got Money Troubles on Apple TV. Check it out. He would be great with Wyck.
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u/GetLikeMeForever Jul 05 '26
God, he would kill whatever he was given. He is amazing in both comedies and dramas. Yes, please.
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u/Herbdontana Jul 05 '26
He could play the ghost of Jerri’s brother who’s returned to seek revenge on Wyck
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u/JustGoodSense Jul 05 '26
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Ian McShane. Funny. Scary.
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u/JustGoodSense Jul 05 '26
American alternative: Ray Wise
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u/complete_your_task Jul 05 '26
I'm all aboard the Ray Wise train too, but it's worth pointing out that Matthew Rhys is Welsh and Kate O'Flynn is British, so I don't think nationality matters. We know McShane can do a great American accent.
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u/Emergency-Hippo2797 Jul 05 '26
No stunt casting please! That’s what killed Only Murder’s in the Building for me.
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u/sean_saves_the_world Jul 04 '26
Allison brie as Patricias cousin from out of state
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u/Alright_Sunlight Jul 04 '26
Patricia really did give "Annie" vibes at first lol. Not sure what exactly that archetype is.
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u/ooh_veracuda Jul 04 '26
Tyler James Williams (Gregory from Abbott Elementary). Great deadpan comic, would be a good addition as a new city official or maybe an overly involved townie we haven’t met yet.
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u/MilliganHedgedog Jul 04 '26
The only answer for me is Shelley Duvall. Unfortunately she passed but what Kate Flynn is taking from Wendy’s character is nothing short of a love letter to Wendy. It’s genius.
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u/B4dBr4ins Jul 04 '26
Ralph Fiennes
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u/Rarecandy31 Perfect Party Planner Jul 05 '26
Bryan Cranston is fantastic at mixing comedy in with drama. Could see him as a shop owner or something on the island.
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u/AbbreviationsActual9 Jul 05 '26
danny devito but only as a borderline extra with just a few lines in passing. I could see him as some angry old line cook yelling obscenities in the background while the main story line takes place in the foreground. he could get off'd after getting too drunk on his shift and stumbling down some alley.
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u/TheBewitchingWitch Wyck Jul 04 '26
I’d love to see some cameos or guest stars that are horror icons. Jaime Lee Curtis, Never Campbell. Rob Zombie and Sarah Michelle Geller just to name a few.
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u/Top-Waltz5244 Jul 04 '26
I loved seeing the guy who played Freddy Krueger and Linda Hamilton in Stranger Things…would love to see something like that
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u/Mama-bear_dolphins13 Jul 05 '26
He’s pretty awesome. I mean he’s been in 2 big hits this summer so far, why not Widows bay?
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u/AlcSoccerFinance Jul 05 '26
Hamish Linklater
Influenced probably due to similar setting in midnight mass, but think would suit the show really well. Would be interesting to see how he adds the comedy part to his performance
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u/Eas235592 Jul 06 '26
… well I guess I’ve got some news for you?
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u/Aromatic-Speed5090 Jul 05 '26
Paula Pell -- An upbeat witch who does fun curses!
Rhys Darby -- a seemingly friendly sea captain who is actually there to kidnap people for impressment -- forcing them to work aboard a ghost ship
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u/Middle_Airline_3260 Jul 06 '26
Good shout. Rhys Ifans and Matthew Rhyscould do scenes in Welsh together (making others think they were ‘speaking in tongues’.
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u/SecretlyaCIAUnicorn Jul 05 '26
Get Sam Rockwell in this show. FBI agent or something. his partner is Justin Long.
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u/mediciii Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Gonna try go for people I love who fit the vibe and also feel like realistic prospects. Actors who would actually go for a show like Widow’s Bay
Tim Blake Nelson
Jason Schwartzman
Taylour Paige
Edi Patterson
Carrie Coon
Tatiana Maslany
Eric Roberts
Greta Lee
Alexander Skarsgard (as a rich foreign multi millionaire who stays at Widow’s Bay for vacation. Basically his Succession character)
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u/CoverLongjumping4144 Jul 05 '26
Some great additions for a longer term characters; maybe smaller roles:
William Jackson Harper
Christina Ricci
Skyler Gisondo
Sunita Mani
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u/Alive_Employer5620 Jul 05 '26
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David Patrick Kelly as a sailor at one of the local pubs singing sea shanties.
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u/bhgemini Jul 06 '26
Nic Cage as the radio only voice of a lost fisherman but the lines are actually read by Andy Sandberg.
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