Russian actor Mark Edelstein after the success of the film “Anora” Sean Baker is preparing to play the male lead in the second season of the series “Mr and Mrs Smith” on the platform Prime Video. This is reported by Deadline.
Initially as the performer of the female lead role called singer Billie Eilish, but she is actively touring and is unlikely to take part in the project.
Amazon MGM Studios, which is co-producing the series with New Regency, is looking for an actor and an actress in their 20s to play John and Jane respectively in the second season on one-year contracts.
The first season of Mr & Mrs Smith debuted in February and was one of the top 5 new series debuts on Prime Video in the US. It was nominated for 16 Emmy Awards as a drama series and won two. Mark Edelstein was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 2002. In 2019, after completing his school internship, he entered the Moscow Art Theatre Studio School, graduating in 2023. In 2021, an anthology of musical short films about teenagers, Sixteen+, was released on the online cinema Kion. The protagonists of the tenth short story “I’m Not Afraid” were Mark Eidelstein and Illarion Marov. In the same year he played the leading role in the drama “The First Snow”, which was the feature film debut of Natalia Konchalovskaya – the daughter of Andrei Konchalovsky. In 2022 he got one of the main roles – Yuri, the 16-year-old grandson of the abbot of the monastery – in the series “Monastery”. In 2023 he played Kolya Gerasimov in the film “One Hundred Years Ago” and began shooting the biographical film “Showcase Copy”, where he played the main role – mathematician Grigory Perelman in his youth. In 2024 he starred in the film Ancora, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.