EXCLUSIVE: AMC‘s The Audacity has promoted Jess McLeod (Regular, She’s Nonbinary) to collection common for the present’s upcoming second season.
McLeod brings to life the character of Harper, the sensible, pink-haired Chief Expertise Officer of the data-mining startup Hypergnosis; a gifted programmer and visionary technologist, they’ve created an algorithm able to uncovering even probably the most protected non-public knowledge.
From creator, author, and govt producer Jonathan Glatzer, The Audacity is about contained in the bubble of Silicon Valley and takes on the warped desires, outsized egos, and moral lapses of the self-styled inventors of the long run. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs, and disillusioned teenagers being optimized in elite non-public colleges, an audacious data-mining CEO (Magnussen) strives to show perception and affect into revenue and energy. The darkly comedic drama confronts actuality, privateness, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world.
Along with McLeod, the collection additionally stars Billy Magnussen, Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, and Rob Corddry.
AMC renewed The Audacity in March, forward of the Silicon Valley drama’s Season 1 premiere. Season 2 will even encompass 10 episodes.
McLeod is a trans, nonbinary actor and filmmaker. This yr, they seem in a pivotal position within the Bob Odenkirk starrer, Regular, and within the slasher comedy Teenage Intercourse and Loss of life at Camp Miasma, which opened Cannes Un Sure Regard. Their quick, She’s Nonbinary, was govt produced by Odenkirk and Jane Schoenbrun, and may have its New York premiere later this month at Tribeca Movie Pageant. McLeod wrote, directed, and starred within the movie. The characteristic model is in growth, and certainly one of a choose few options invited to the Tribeca Creators Market. She’s Nonbinary will even debut in Los Angeles at Dances with Movies and in London at Raindance Movie Pageant.
McLeod is repped by OPE Companions and Lauren Levitt & Associates.