Manny Jacinto is the latest name to be added to the “Nine Perfect Strangers” series at Hulu.
The “Good Place” star joins previously announced cast members Melissa McCarthy and Nicole Kidman.
The show, which was greenlit by Hulu in May 2019, is based on the book of the same name by “Big Little Lies” author Liane Moriarty. It takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine “perfect” strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
Jacinto will play Yao, a bright-eyed man-kid with a hipster vibe. After a life and death encounter with Masha, Yao finds himself as her right hand man at Tranquillum, a wellness resort with unusual practices. He’s deeply committed to Masha’s self-improvement techniques and teachings and is in entirely in her thrall.
Deadline first reported the casting news.
More to come…
