Update: Callum Keith Rennie to play Gary Connell, leader of the West Coast resistance, according to Deadline Hollywood.
Alternate WWII outcome series The Man in the High Castle has cast Callum Keith Rennie (Fifty Shades’s Ray Steele) in an undisclosed role for its second season. Based on Philip K. Dick’s award-winning novel, the Amazon Prime series imagines an alternate America in the early 1960s after the Japanese and Germans win World War II and divide the United States into three regions — the west coast as the Japanese Pacific States, the Rockies as a neutral zone and the east coast as the Greater Nazi Reich.
Callum Keith Rennie’s character seems to be inspecting a bus bound for Seattle at a San Francisco bus stop in the Japanese Pacific States played by Vancouver’s Carrall Street in Chinatown.
Rick Worthy and Callum Keith Rennie.
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Background.
Produced by Ridley Scott and Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), characters in the Japanese Pacific States include Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos), Frank Frink (Rupert Evans), Nobusuke Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) and Inspector Quido (Joe de la Fuente).
Season 2 of The Man in the High Castle started filming March 22nd and is expected to wrap in late September(dates subject to change) via the Directors Guild of Canada – BC production list.