Justin Timberlake, Jason Ritter Make Shock Appearances Reverse Wives in Hulu’s Sweet

Even higher, they had been doing it proper beneath our noses. The brand new crime drama, based mostly on the real-life story of a girl accused of killing her greatest buddy within the ’80s (thus the hair!), is having fun with a novel launch schedule on the platform, which allowed for this shock midway by.

It was simply this previous weekend that stars Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey hit the crimson carpet for the premiere of “Sweet,” which is dropping its 5 episodes one per day this week on the streaming platform.

The ladies had been joined by their co-stars on the present, in addition to their well-known husbands, Justin Timberlake and Jason Ritter. However what regarded identical to spouses supporting spouses turned out to be one thing else totally.

On Thursday’s fourth episode, followers had been shocked to see the lads present up on-screen as sheriff’s deputies investigating the homicide on the heart of the saga. Their roles are anticipated to proceed into Friday’s finale, so these are extra than simply cheeky cameos.

Kudos to your entire forged and crew for maintaining this one a secret, because it helped maintain the highlight firmly on the 2 unimaginable girls within the lead. Jessica Biel even needed to some additional work this week when she appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay.”

She was requested if she and Timberlake ever deliberate to work collectively in some unspecified time in the future, and he or she positively performed it coy. “We wish to play adversaries,” she shared.

And identical to that, that is precisely what they’re doing. Biel performs Sweet Montgomery, who’s accused of murdering her buddy Betty Gore, performed by Melanie Lynskey, after Sweet had an affair with Betty’s husband. She, after all, denies all the pieces.

Timberlake stepped into the real-life sneakers of Deputy Steve “Duffy” Deffibaugh, who was the lead investigator within the case. Taking part in a sheriff’s deputy put Timberlake squarely reverse Biel’s character within the sequence. They share a number of scenes collectively this week as she tells her tales, and he is clearly not shopping for any of it.

As for a way Timberlake wound up within the position, Biel revealed to ET that he really volunteered to do it. Whereas the 2 had been wanting over the script, he requested concerning the deputy position and he or she instructed him they had been out of cash and would most likely have to simply rent somebody native to fill it. “And he goes, ‘I wish to play it,'” she mentioned.

Ritter was introduced in after showrunner Robin Veith noticed an image of him sporting a mustache and thought he completely had an ’80s throwback vibe. “She was impressed by his ’80s cool, edgy fireman look,” Lynskey instructed ET. Alas, the mustache didn’t make the ultimate lower.

Biel additionally instructed the outlet that the expertise really bonded Timberlake and Ritter. “Clearly, Jason is a comedic genius and Justin is in his personal proper as nicely,” she mentioned. “And the way in which they work off one another and the improv that they did, it was superb to see.”

Lynskey mentioned that by the method, which noticed the lads “textual content on a regular basis” to debate their characters, in addition to “lengthy telephone calls,” with Biel including that they’d principally “turn out to be besties.” Timberlake and Biel shared their “Sweet” appears to be like on Instagram after the episode dropped.

“Sweet” concludes with its fifth and last episode — that includes each husband-and-wife duos — Friday on Hulu.