Hulu’s Kumail Nanjiani-Led Chippendales Limited Series Adds White Lotus Breakout Murray Bartlett
White Lotus star Murray Bartlett‘s red-hot career ascension continues.
A day after landing a SAG Award nominations for his breakout role in the HBO dark comedy, Bartlett has joined Hulu‘s forthcoming Chippendales origin story.
Starring Kumail Nanjiani as Chippendales founder Somen “Steve” Banerjee, Immigrant chronicles the “insane, darkly comedic, crime-ridden story behind the unique male revue that became a cultural phenomenon,” per Hulu.
Bartlett — whose TV credits also include Looking, Tales of the City and Nashville, boards the limited series as producer/choreographer Nick De Noia, a charming, fast-talking New Yorker who’s certain he’s God’s gift to entertainment. De Noia is responsible for transforming Chippendales from a seedy male strip joint in West LA to the global juggernaut it would one day become. A man of many passions, Nick loves drinking, drugs, women, men — and most of all, showbiz.
The eight-part series will be written by Pam & Tommy creator Robert Siegel, who serves as an EP alongside Nanjiani, Dylan Sellers, Emily V. Gordon, Rajiv Joseph and Mehar Sethi.
I remember him from Guiding Light. He was that show’s answer to Young and the Restless’s Daniel Goddard on the British/Australian actors in an American
daytime soap department.
I remember him from ‘Looking’. He’s hardly a breakout star, if you ask me. But then again, asking a lot of other people who probably never seen him before.
Well, I adore him so good for him on getting more work.