Olivia Scott Welch Joins Bob Odenkirk In AMC Collection – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Picnic star Olivia Scott Welch has been tapped as a lead reverse Bob Odenkirk and Mireille Enos in Straight Man, AMC’s sequence adaptation of Richard Russo’s novel, from former The Killing writer-producer Aaron Zelman and The Workplace alum Paul Lieberstein.

Within the dramedy, from TriStar TV, William Henry Devereaux Jr. (Odenkirk) is the unlikely and reluctant chairman of the English division in an underfunded faculty within the Pennsylvania rust belt. His discontent is rooted in unresolved points along with his father, a mediocre and entitled scholar physique, and in the truth that his division is extra savagely divided than the Balkans.

Welch will play Julie, Hank (Odenkirk) and Lily’s (Enos) solely baby. Julie is bewildering to Hank, a daughter he shares nearly nothing in widespread with (or so he thinks). She doesn’t prefer to learn, by no means graduated faculty, doesn’t have a job that pays her sufficient to dwell on, and but feels entitled to her mother and father’ life-style. However she’s strong-willed and self-possessed, an individual who is aware of precisely what she needs in life, even when she’s a bit delusional about methods to get it.

Zelman and Lieberstein govt produce with Odenkirk, Peter Farrelly, who directs, Russo, Naomi Odenkirk and Marc Provissiero. Sony Photos’ Tv TriStar TV and Mark Johnson’s Gran Through are producing.

Welch not too long ago headlined Prime Video’s YA sequence Panic. Upcoming, she shall be seen in Netflix’s Concern Avenue movie trilogy, tailored from R.L. Stine’s bestselling e book sequence. Her earlier sequence credit additionally embrace stints on Netflix’s Unbelievable, ABC’s Trendy Household and Marvel’s Agent Carter. She is repped by UTA, Vault Leisure and Kopeikin Legislation.