It is being reported that Jodie Turner-Smith, True Blood, Anne Boleyn, Queen & Slim and The Witcher: Blood Origin, is joining the Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte in an unannounced role.
Turner-Smith, who garnered awards recognition with her starring turn in Queen & Slim, also recently starred as the title character in the miniseries Anne Boleyn. She will next be seen opposite Adam Driver in White Noise, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, opposite Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler in Netflix’s Murder Mystery 2 as well as opposite Vince Vaughn in the Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey. She is repped by UTA, 111 Media and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
No official comment from Disney/Lucasfilm on this casting. The Acolyte will start to film later this year at Shinfield Studios near London.
