‘Panhandle’: Forrest Goodluck Joins Spectrum & Roku Dramedy As Series Rounds Out Cast
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Forrest Goodluck has joined Nick Stoller and Carla Kettner’s Florida dramedy Panhandle in a lead role alongside a slew of series regulars.The Spectrum Originals and Roku series has also added series regulars including Clue’s Lesley Ann Warren, Hacks and Women is Losers actor Lorenza Izzo, Black Lightning’s Wallace Smith, 24’s Glenn Morshower.They star alongside Luke Kirby, who plays Bell Prescott, and Tiana Okoye, who stars as Cammie Lorde.Separately, Melanie Minichino, who featured in the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, joins in a recurring role.Panhandle follows an eccentric, agoraphobic arm-chair detective with a reluctant traffic cop in a series that showcases community, connection, and only-in-Florida characters.
Together, Prescott and Lorde wrestle with personal demons, shocking twists and a few Florida gators on their journey to heal themselves and their town.Goodluck plays Checotah, the local delivery guy and consummate stoner, who remembers everything that everybody orders.
Checotah has formed a friendship with the agoraphobic Bell after delivering many packages to his property, and on one such delivery he gets inadvertently sucked into the investigation of the murdered man on Bell’s property.He previously starred in The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Cherry, The Liberator and The Revenant as well as nabbing the lead in the upcoming Pet Sematary prequel for Paramount+.Izzo plays Vida, Bell’s beautiful and complicated Cuban-American wife, whose family runs a rum company and who’s carrying a secret of her own.Smith plays Dr.
Otis, the local doctor working in Boggsville, Florida – at least until he can pay off his student loans and open a Botox clinic in Atlanta.
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