{"id":774,"date":"2016-02-04T17:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T22:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2016-02-04T17:33:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T22:33:17","slug":"774","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/04\/774\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Shalhoub Joins the Cast of BRAINDEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tony_shalhoub.jpg\" alt=\"tony_shalhoub\" width=\"720\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tony_shalhoub.jpg 720w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tony_shalhoub-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor Tony Shalhoub has joined the cast of &#8220;<em>BrainDead<\/em>,&#8221; a new comic-thriller set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics, to be broadcast in summer 2016. The series comes from Robert and Michelle King, creators and executive producers of &#8220;<em>The Good Wife<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shalhoub will play Red Wheatus, a hard-drinking, fun-loving Republican senator who has spent decades in Washington making deals, until a radical transformation turns him into a health-conscious extremist who would rather destroy the government than compromise.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2346584001\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled that Tony Shalhoub will be joining &#8216;<em>BrainDead<\/em>,'&#8221; said executive producers Robert and Michelle King. &#8220;He&#8217;s funny, dramatic, subtle, and broad when he needs to be. To our minds, he can play anything. We were thinking of making the character a 12-year-old blind girl hunting for her mother in Belgium to see what he did with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tony Shalhoub is well known for his starring role as the obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk in the popular television series &#8220;<em>Monk<\/em>,&#8221; for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards. His additional television credits include &#8220;<em>Nurse Jackie<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Too Big to Fail<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Wings<\/em>.&#8221; Shalhoub&#8217;s feature film credits include &#8220;<em>Big Night<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>The Siege<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Galaxy Quest<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Men in Black<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Men in Black II<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Pain &amp; Gain<\/em>,&#8221; and the voice of Luigi in the popular animated movies &#8220;<em>Cars<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Cars II<\/em>.&#8221; He appeared in the theatrical productions of &#8220;<em>Act One<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Golden Boy<\/em>&#8221; on Broadway, receiving Tony Award nominations for both.<\/p>\n<p>As previously announced, Mary Elizabeth Winstead will star as Laurel, a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer whose first job in Washington, D.C. leads her to discover two things: The government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers. Also, Aaron Tveit will play Gareth, the Legislative Director to a top Republican senator, who is smart, hard-working, and ultimately responsible for helping to save the world. Danny Pino will portray Luke, Laurel&#8217;s older brother, the Democratic Whip Senator from Maryland, and Tony Award-winning actress Nikki M. James will play Rochelle, a medical resident whose father dies as the result of a mysterious infection. 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