Chris Cooper has been set to join Janelle Monáe in the upcoming second season of Amazon’s Homecoming, produced by Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail.
Cooper will play Leonard Geist, an eccentric botanist who is more at home in his greenhouse than in the boardrooms of the company he created. Monáe plays a woman who finds herself floating in a canoe, with no memory of how she got there or even who she is.
The Amazon psychological thriller drama series will deviate from the popular Gimlet Media’s podcast on which Season 1 was based on and will introduce new characters. Season one starred Julia Roberts, who will not be returning but is still on as an executive producer. So far returning from season one are Stephan James and Hong Chau.
Cooper next will be seen co-starring opposite Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys in Marielle Heller’s Fred Rogers movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
