The pilot for Sterlin Harjo’s new “Tulsa noir” project for FX will be populated with Oklahoma talent.
It was reported Tuesday by Deadline and Variety that eight actors have been added to a cast of “The Sensitive Kind.”
Among Oklahoma actors added to the cast: Tulsa’s Jeanne Tripplehorn and Tim Blake Nelson, plus Tulsa-born Tracy Letts, a Tony Award-winning actor, playwright and screenwriter who was raised in Durant. Letts won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his work as a playwright on “August: Osage County.”
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Other new additions to “The Sensitive Kind” cast are Keith David, Choctaw actress Siena East, Macon Blair, Kyle Maclachlan and Scott Shepherd, who played Byron Burkhart in the shot-in-Oklahoma film “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Ethan Hawke, who guest-starred in a final-season episode of Harjo’s critically acclaimed “Reservation Dogs” series for FX, was previously announced as being on board for “The Sensitive Kind.” Like Hawke, Blair appeared in “Reservation Dogs,” which was shot in Oklahoma.
News broke in February that FX had ordered a pilot for “The Sensitive Kind,” a Harjo-created drama described as a “Tulsa noir.” The pilot will be shot in Tulsa.
Hawke will star and serve as an executive producer alongside Harjo and Garrett Basch. Harjo, a Tulsa-based filmmaker, will write and direct the pilot.