EXCLUSIVE: Now that’s a gig few male actors could pass up — playing the boss of a Playboy club. After a slew of castings of beautiful young actresses as Playboy bunnies, former Numbers star David Krumholtz is set for a co-starring role in NBC’s drama pilot Playboy. In the 20th/Imagine TV project, set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963, Krumholtz will play the club’s general manager, a young Albert Brooks and a bottom-line kind of guy, a bit of a nerd who now gets to play with the cool kids.
Additionally, Krumholtz, repped by CAA and the Collective, is developing Igotchaback, a half-hour single-camera comedy for FX based loosely on the lives of legendary rap artist and Wu Tang Clan founding member GZA and his publicist Heathcliff Berru. The project, which Krumholtz is executive producing with an eye to star, centers on an up-and-coming music industry manager tasked with representing an aging rap star mired knee-deep in existential crisis.
Last pilot season, Krumholtz starred in another 20th TV/Imagine pilot, Fox comedy Tax Man.
Can’t stop the signal.
WTF do you mean?
This casting news just ruined the show for me. Will have to really think about watching it now.
SAME HERE! HATE HIM!
Great he can reprise being whiny and smirking just like on Numbers. Thank he’ll keep the Glenn Close “Fatal Attraction” haircut?
For a second I thought he was playing the Don Draper esque lead, that would have been cool/strange
David Krumholtz is so talented.. they needed a veteran on that show
He’s done dramatic roles before. He has a much deeper voice now.
the casting directors on this pilot are the worst in the business. they cant find the lead guy. have tested everyone from Ioan Gruffudd, to Jay Harrington, Eddie Cibrian this could have been an amazing pilot and now they are desperate to cast the most important role in the show.
People over here were saying that Steve Buscemi was wrong for the part of Boardwalk Empire and he ended up winning the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.
fucking swag
It is what it is. La Padura and Hart were offered this as the only casting directors who would break ranks on the assistant hiring thing, after Debbie Zane and others had passed. They haven’t stunk, but the casting’s not particularly great. They had their chance to get out of the Lipstick Jungle, Event, Cane, Summerland category of okay if not spectacular casting and they didn’t take it. But somebody’s got to cast the Lindsay Price’s of the world, right?
Wow, what’s with the hate? First time I saw him was in Liberty Heights, which may have conditioned me to like him from that point on. But yeah, he’s okay, and will probably do fine in this project, which sounds not half-bad…
He’s not actually playing a young Albert Brooks, is he? The phrasing in that article is a little weird.
Hi just a comment regarding Krumholtz (I’m not a fan)
Recently I saw David Krumholtz on a “Law & Order” (SVU from 2010 ) and he looked quite different(his acting was ok). What struck me the most about him was his looks, his boyish or youngish features are all but gone, also the beard he grew for the episode really stank. Anyways thumbs up for his acting thumbs down for his new looks.
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