Coming off some of the best notices of his career for his guest-starring spot on HBO’s “The Last of Us,” actor Nick Offerman is enlisting in Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy”.
The former “Parks and Recreation” star and his real-life wife Megan Mullally (“Will & Grace”) will reportedly co-star in the fourth and final season of the adaptation of Gerard Way’s comic about a dysfunctional family of adopted superhero siblings.
Talking to ET Online at the third season premiere of “Party Down,” Mullally revealed the news saying serious talks are underway: “I mean, the deal’s not quite closed but let’s just pretend it is. [We start filming] in a couple of weeks.”
She adds the pair, who have been married for twenty years and worked together on screen multiple times, will play a mild-mannered married couple named Jean and Gene who are college professors. They will be the first major cast addition for the shortened six-episode final run.
At the end of the third season, the group essentially reset the universe and ended back up in the modern day, albeit without their powers. At the same time, a new version of Reginald and his resurrected wife Abigail observe the city, now under their control.
Regular cast members Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min and Colm Feore are all expected back along with showrunner Steve Blackman who will segue from this into the “Horizon: Zero Dawn” TV series currently in development.
