Alfonso Cuarón’s upcoming Apple TV series “Ascension” has added three new series regulars.
\n\nVariety has learned that Amanda Plummer (“Run,” “Butterfly Kiss”), Christopher Chung (“Slow Horses,” “My Brilliant Career”) and T’Nia Miller (“The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “VisionQuest”) have all been cast in the series. Exact character details are being kept under wraps.
\n\nAs previously reported, Caitríona Balfe will lead the cast, while it was recently announced that Bill Nighy will also star.
\n\nThe series is inspired by the novel “Last Days” by Adam Nevill. The logline states that it follows Rose (Balfe), “a relentless documentary filmmaker and recently divorced mother, brilliant at uncovering others’ truths but struggling to resolve her own. When Rose begins a project on a mysterious 20th-century cult known as the Church of Ascension, she finds unexpected refuge in its teachings – until she discovers something far more insidious beneath.”Plummer is repped by Michael Greene Artists Agency, RED Management, and Markham, Froggert, Irwin in London. Chung is repped by The Artists Partnership and Link Entertainment. Miller is repped by Identity Agency and Yorn Levine Barnes.
\n\nAlfonso Cuarón is co-writer on the series along with his brother Carlos Cuarón as well as Natalie Erika James (“Apartment 7A,”…
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