Fresh off his Emmy win, Jon Bernthal is coming out with his next gig. The Bear star and Pablo Schreiber have nabbed key roles in Netflix‘s His & Hers adaptation that has Tessa Thompson executive producing and starring in the lead role. The series is described as a seductive and twisty psychological thriller.
The six-episode limited series stars Thompson as newscaster Anna Andrews, a woman who, per the show’s logline, lives in haunting reclusivity in the sweltering heat of Atlanta, fading away from her friends and career as a journalist. But when she overhears about a murder in Dahlonega, Georgia — the sleepy town where she grew up — Anna is snapped back to life, pouncing on the case and searching for answers.
Bernthal will play Jack Harper, the Sheriff’s Office detective who is married to Anna but the two are estranged, their relationship complicated by loss and betrayal. Jack lost his last job and is now working in his small hometown of Dahlonega, where he lives with his sister and niece. Jack is described as a good man who doesn’t always make good decisions, and is deeply troubled by the murder case he’s just picked up.
And Schreiber will play Richard, one of the best cameramen at the local news station who is married to “hot new anchor Lexy Jones,” who slid into her position amid the recent absence of regular anchor Anna. Richard is chosen by Anna to be her cameraman when, upon her return, she picks up the story of a murder in Dahlonega as a field reporter.
The logline says Jack is strangely suspicious of Anna’s involvement, “chasing her into the crosshairs of his own investigation” and noting: “There are two sides to every story: His & Hers, which means someone is always lying.”
From filmmaker William Oldroyd, the series is adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel of the same name, and went into production this fall. A premiere date has yet to be announced.
Along with Thompson, director-writer Oldroyd (who directs the first episode), showrunner-writer Dee Johnson (Fellow Travelers, The Good Wife, ER) and writer Bill Dubuque executive produce the Fifth Season series, with Kristen Campo for Campout Productions, Jessica Chastain and Kelly Carmichael for Freckle Films and Kishori Rajan for Viva Maude.
Chastain’s Freckle Films snapped up the rights to Feeney’s book soon after its publication in 2020.
Bernthal just picked up the best guest actor in a comedy trophy during the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys for his role as Mikey Berzatto on FX’s The Bear. Along with starring on The Bear, his recent notable television roles include American Gigolo and We Own This City, after starring on Netflix’s The Punisher and AMC’s The Walking Dead.
Shreiber, who broke out on American Gods and Orange Is the New Black, has since starred in limited series Defending Jacob and Candy, and, most recently, the two-season Halo adaptation.
