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EXCLUSIVE: Louis Cancelmi (Sorry, Baby) is set as a series regular opposite Ellen Pompeo and Jodie Whittaker in the pilot Chicks, from Good American Family‘s Katie Robbins that we first told you about in June.
Hailing from 20th Television, with Robbins as writer and executive producer, Chicks is a family dramedy set in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of old Boston. It follows Chickie (Pompeo) and Doreen (Whittaker), two estranged half-sisters who are both struggling to get by when their wise guy dad unexpectedly kicks the bucket. Their only inheritance is a legacy of two-bit crime that inspires them to run increasingly audacious frauds. As their con grows, so does their odd-couple bond, as they each start to fill the father-shaped hole in the other's heart.
Cancelmi will play Danny McKeever, a guy with a poet’s soul and a con-man’s dreams who’s been stuck running his family’s funeral home for decades. So he can’t believe his luck when his high school sweetheart Chickie and her enticing sister Doreen saunter back into his life with the proposition to start up a criminal partnership.
Chicks is based on an original idea from Robbins that she developed specifically for Pompeo, inspired by conversations the two had on set of their first project together, the Hulu limited series Good American Family. Pompeo and Robbins exec produce alongside the latter's Calamity Jane partner Laura Holstein.
Cancelmi was most recently seen in Julian Schnabel’s In The Hand Of Dante and Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! Next up is Mayday from co-directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein for Apple TV. On the TV side, he recently appeared in Apple TV’s Government Cheese and HBO Max’s The Penguin. He recently wrapped Martin Scorsese’s What Happens At Night opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, and he is currently shooting Tommy Karate opposite Pete Davidson for director Justin Chon. Cancelmi is repped by Paradigm and Red Letter Entertainment.
Matt Grobar contributed to this report.
