Tom Pelphrey Talks Love & Death, Falling in Love With Kaley Cuoco, and His First Tattoo
glamour.comGuiding Light), been nominated for a Primetime Emmy (for a memorable guest role on Ozark), and starred in the Oscar-nominated best picture Mank opposite Gary Oldman).
So it's only normal to have watched the first four episodes of and wondered why the actor wasn't more in the spotlight. You don't just cast Tom Pelphrey for background eye candy, no matter how prestigious the series may be. “It's so interesting because in the first few episodes he's there, but he's not a main character,” says executive producer and director Lesli Linka Glatter. “But in the remaining episodes, he is.”Is he ever.
In the HBO Max limited series, which stars Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons, Pelphrey plays Don Crowder, a former football player turned personal injury attorney, husband, church council member, and friend to all.
He looks like a cookie-cutter Ken doll with expertly coiffed hair, a perfect physique, and well, not much else. That all changes in episode five, streaming now, when Crowder becomes front and center as the criminal attorney for Candy Montgomery (Elizabeth Olsen) .
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