
EXCLUSIVE: Lili Taylor is set as the female lead in Fox‘s untitled Bad Robot/J.H. Wyman drama pilot (formerly Inhuman). The action-packed buddy cop show, from Warner Bros. TV, is set in the near future when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. It centers on one such pairing, cop John Kennex and his android partner Dorian (Michael Ealy). Six Feet Under alumna Lili Taylor, repped by APA and Circle of Confusion, will play Maldonado, an ambitious and determined police captain who is willing to make sacrifices for the greater good. She also stars in the upcoming film The Conjuring and recurs on Eli Roth’s Netflix series Hemlock Grove.
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I have loved her since SAY ANYTHING. So glad to see that she’s busy!
Love, love, love Lili Taylor. So happy for her.
This is great news. She is the real deal and a great actor. She deserves this impressive run.
I know right. Lili was awesome in I SHOT ANDY WARHOL. RANSOM. That vampire movie with Chris Walken. Lili rocks!!!!
Isn’t Maldonado a Spanish name? Couldn’t they find an actual Spanish person to play a Spanish character?
Did it occur to you that maybe her character is only Spanish on her father’s side, she was adopted by a Spanish family or maybe her husband is Spanish?
Sure those are possibilities but somehow I doubt it. If and when the show airs we will see. Anglos are cast as Spanish characters all the time. It is simply wrong and disrespectful in my opinion.
Nice! Great actress. With her and Michael Ealy, this looks promising — not to mention, it’s the best of the drama pilots that I’ve read so far this season.
Bigger question then ethnicity is how Maldonado went from a 50 year old man to a 40ish woman. Fantastic script though, still excited to see it.
Can we stop saying “Eli Roth’s Netflix series Hemlock Grove”? Homeboy hasn’t been a part of this operation since his dismal performance directing the pilot.
I agree with u bro!
New Abrams/Wyman FOX cop show must be like Abrams/Nolan POI – with procedural structure and less arcs. POI is best scripted and acted drama on broadcast TV. If they can move some of the writers and Greg Plageman to help Wyman the same way they do with Nolan will be perfect. Only change can be younger cast and hot female lead for better 18-34 demo – its FOX, not CBS.
I tend to shy away from shows that throw in some young “hot female lead” just because. Glad Bad Robot isn’t so boring. Not that their female leads aren’t “hot.” Can’t wait to see this show based on the story. Rare, I know…