Annaleigh Ashford (“Happy Face”) has joined the main cast of Apple TV+’s upcoming eight-episode limited series “The Off Weeks” as a series regular, Deadline reports. The show stars and is executive produced by Jessica Chastain and Ben Stiller, with Arian Moayed also set as part of the core ensemble.
From executive producer and showrunner Alissa Nutting and directed by Michael Showalter, who developed the project with Semi-Formal Productions, “The Off Weeks” follows writing professor Gus Adler (Stiller), whose divorce has thrown his life into chaos. He struggles to hold things together during “on weeks” when he has custody of his kids. But in his “off weeks,” he’s falling dangerously in love with Stella West (Chastain), a mysterious woman whose arrival puts Gus’ on-week duties and off-weeks ambitions on a fatal collision course.
Ashford most recently starred in the Paramount+ drama series “Happy Face” opposite Dennis Quaid, from executive producers Robert & Michelle King. She received a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2023 for the Hulu limited series “Welcome to Chippendales” opposite Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett and Juliette Lewis.
MacDailyNews Note: Hailing from Apple Studios, “The Off Weeks” is produced for Apple TV+ by global independent studio wiip. The series is showrun and executive produced by Nutting. Stiller executive produces for Red Hour alongside John Lesher. Chastain executive produces alongside Kelly Carmichael for Freckle Films. Showalter, who directs and developed the project with Semi-Formal Productions, executive produces alongside Jordana Mollick. Paul Lee and Gabriel Fisher executive produce for wiip. Peter Principato, Allen Fischer and Brian Steinberg executive produce for Artists First. Dean Bakopoulos (“Made for Love”) also serves as executive producer.
The project marks Stiller’s latest collaboration with Apple TV+ following the Emmy Award-winning global phenomenon “Severance,” as well as upcoming documentary feature “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost.” Chastain will also soon be seen in the Apple Original thriller “The Savant,” billed by Apple as “coming soon,” in which she stars and serves as executive producer.
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