EXCLUSIVE: Abigail Spencer (Suits), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter), and Lucas Till (MacGyver) have been tapped for supporting roles in Clean Hands, the true-life drama from writer-director Jake Allyn on which we were first to report last month.
The trio is set to star opposite previously announced leads Zach Braff and Esther McGregor, with production now underway.
Set in Hagerstown MD, a Baltimore suburb along the infamous “Heroin Highway,” Clean Hands explores the American drug crisis through the lens of a father-daughter duo caught on opposing sides of the law, based on the harrowing story of hero drug cop turned recovery advocate Kevin Simmers (Braff) and his daughter Brooke (McGregor).
Spencer will portray Kevin’s wife Dana, while McCallany will play Maryland Congressman David Trone and Lucas Till will play Sheriff’s Deputy Dormer.
Producers include Conor Allyn of Margate House Films, Brian Loschiavo of Riverside Entertainment, James Suttles and Jason Winn of WW / SF Entertainment, and JR Rappaport of Glasshouse Pictures. Braff is executive producing, along with Jim Gladden, Scott and Linda Davis, Tony Herbert, Jonathan Beaulieu, Daniel Weaver, William Deasey, and Kevin and Dana Simmers of Brooke’s House.
Previously, Spencer has been seen in films like Oz: The Great and Powerful and Cowboys and Aliens, along with numerous series, including Rectify, Mad Men, Grey’s Anatomy, Suits, True Detective, and more. Recently, she produced Duke Johnson’s The Actor through her and Johnson’s Innerlight Films, alongside Paul Young, Ken Kao, Ryan Gosling, and Neon. She is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Garnering widespread acclaim for his role as Detective Bill Tench in David Fincher’s Mindhunter, McCallany returns to Netflix this summer in crime drama The Waterfront. On the film side, he’ll next be seen in The Amateur and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Additionally, he’s set to make his directorial debut with an adaptation of Guiseppe Tornatore’s Oscar-nominated The Star Maker. He is repped by Buchwald, Atlas Artists, and attorney Rick Genow.
Till, well known for his five-season run as the title character in CBS’s MacGyver, will next star in Kurt Sutter’s Netflix series The Abandons, alongside Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson. Other past credits include the indie Son of the South and the role of Havok in a trio of X-Men films. He is repped by manager Tom Sullivan, Independent Artist Group, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
