{"id":1959532,"date":"2025-08-14T06:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1959532"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:34:47","slug":"john-malkovich-joins-apple-tvs-prodigies-in-guest-star-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-malkovich-joins-apple-tvs-prodigies-in-guest-star-role\/","title":{"rendered":"John Malkovich Joins Apple TV+\u2019s \u2018Prodigies\u2019 in Guest Star Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">John Malkovich has joined the cast of Apple TV+\u2019s \u201cProdigies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Malkovich will guest star\u00a0in the upcoming romantic comedy series, which stars Will Sharpe and Ayo Edebiri as two ex-child prodigies who have been together since they were children. Malkovich reunites with Edebiri after the pair starred in A24\u2019s \u201cOpus,\u201d where Malkovich\u00a0played \u201990s pop superstar Alfred Moretti and Edebiri played journalist Ariel Ecton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to Sharpe and Edebiri, Malkovich joins \u201cProdigies\u201d cast members Andrene Ward-Hammond,\u00a0Yumi As\u014d, Tobias Menzies, Rina Sawayama, Sophia Di Martino, Reece Shearsmith, Nabhaan Rizwan, Meera Syal and Lolly Adefope.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/join-pro\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=site&amp;utm_campaign=articlePROpromo&amp;utm_id=070825\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"247\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/C8zH.0YH3.WF7yVlrIECaQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTI0NztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thewrap.com\/9c7d0b3beed6f4c9b7c5e1d24c6e24d4\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Billed as an unusual take on a classic romantic comedy, \u201cProdigies\u201d follows Didi (Edebiri) and Ren (Sharpe) in their early 30s as they start to question whether their very ordinary existence is living up to the extraordinary promise of their childhood, and, inevitably, they find themselves asking the same questions of their relationship, per the official logline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sharpe, who can be seen in Lena Dunham\u2019s \u201cToo Much\u201d opposite Megan Stalter and also starred in \u201cThe White Lotus\u201d Season 2 and \u201cA Real Pain,\u201d created and wrote \u201cProdigies\u201d and serves as an EP alongside Edebiri, Jane Featherstone, Naomi de Pear and Katie Carpenter for Sister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Malkovich is best known for \u201cBeing John Malkovich,\u201d \u201cDangerous Liaisons,\u201d \u201cIn the Line of Fire,\u201d \u201cBurn After Reading,\u201d \u201cRed\u201d and \u201cRed 2,\u201d among others. On the TV side, Malkovich has appeared in \u201cRipley,\u201d \u201cThe New Look,\u201d \u201cBillions,\u201d \u201cSpace Force,\u201d \u201cThe New Pope\u201d and \u201cThe ABC Murders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Malkovich\u00a0is represented by WME.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/john-malkovich-apple-tv-prodigies-guest-star\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:John Malkovich Joins Apple TV+\u2019s \u2018Prodigies\u2019 in Guest Star Role;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">John Malkovich Joins Apple TV+\u2019s \u2018Prodigies\u2019 in Guest Star Role<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Malkovich has joined the cast of Apple TV+\u2019s \u201cProdigies.\u201d Malkovich will guest star\u00a0in the upcoming romantic comedy series, which stars Will Sharpe and Ayo Edebiri as two ex-child prodigies who have been together since they were children. Malkovich reunites with Edebiri after the pair starred in A24\u2019s \u201cOpus,\u201d where Malkovich\u00a0played \u201990s pop superstar Alfred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1956684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[344575,344576,344574,344580,344581,344578,344582,344579,344577],"class_list":["post-1959532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-ayo-edebiri","tag-being-john-malkovich","tag-john-malkovich","tag-nabhaan-rizwan","tag-reece-shearsmith","tag-rina-sawayama","tag-sophia-di-martino","tag-tobias-menzies","tag-will-sharpe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ryan-Reynolds-Dwayne-Johnson-Tessa-Thompson-and-More-Set-Panels.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}