The Marvel casting couch has been adding actors like crazy over the few days. THR reported a couple days back that Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Laura Harrier (“One Life To Live“) have joined the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming. While details remain scarce on Harrier’s role, Revolori will reportedly be playing a friend of Peter Parker (Tom Holland) named “Manuel”. The Jon Watts-directed film arrives in theaters in July 2017 and has a cast also comprised of Marisa Tomei and Zendaya.
Next up, actor Eka Darville recently spoke to SpoilerTV about his role as reformed junkie Malcolm Ducasse on Netflix’s “Jessica Jones“. During the conversation, he revealed that we’ll actually see him before “Jones” gets its second season. That’s right, Malcolm will rear his head again in “The Defenders” miniseries arriving next year. At this time he appears to be unsure of how much screentime he will be receiving, but this marks another “Jones” co-star shaking it up with the other Netflix heroes after Jeri Hogarth’s (Carrie-Ann Moss) appearance on “Daredevil” this year.
Speaking of Netflix, their next Marvel series has added two more to its cast. The currently-shooting “Iron Fist” has cast Jessica Stroup (“90210“) and Tom Pelphrey (“Banshee“, pictured above) as siblings Joy and Ward Meachum, respectively. They are the children of Harold Meachum (David Wenham), who will be one of the show’s villains. Meachum was the business partner of hero Danny Rand’s (Finn Jones) parents and had a hand in their deaths. Rand, of course, is the titular superhero, Iron Fist.