JIM MICKLE Executive Producer / Writer
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PRESS KIT CONTENTS About the Series 3 Characters and Cast 4 Production Biographies 16 Production Credits 25 PAGE 2 ABOUT THE SERIES In “Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo,” Hap and Leonard find themselves in mucho trouble as they unravel a murder mystery with more twists and turns than an East Texas highway. The story begins with a skeleton, Trudy’s missing ashes, a pissing match with a neighbourhood drug dealer and a piece of MeMaw’s fresh baked pie. When Leonard is arrested for a murder he didn’t commit, Hap and attorney Florida Grange must work to clear his name. The only things standing in their way are Hap’s unquenchable thirst for Florida, a serial killer, bad mojo and themselves. WHAT IS MOJO? An inexplicable force of nature that moves people in unexpected ways. PAGE 3 CHARACTERS AND CAST PAGE 4 HAP COLLINS Hap Collins is a man looking for truth, justice, the American way, and just a little love to go with it. He isn’t having any luck. Somehow middle age has snuck up on him and he doesn’t have much to show for it. Good looks and East Texas charm don’t pay the bills. A working class, liberal romantic, Hap has one foot in the past and the other trying to find traction in a world he doesn’t much understand. He’s old school but graduation was a long time ago. Hap may not be the slickest cowboy around, but it’s his sense of right and wrong and his black hat / white hat belief system that keeps him kicking for the underdog. Hell, he’s an underdog himself. With his dry cowboy humour and his bulldog tenacity, Hap fights a never-ending battle against injustice. JAMES PUREFOY James Purefoy is best known for playing Joe Carroll on Fox’s “The Following” and Mark Antony in the award-winning HBO series “Rome.” He is about to begin production on the Netflix series “Altered Carbon,” opposite Joel Kinnaman. Earlier this year he also starred in History Channel’s “Roots.” Other television credits include “Revenge,” “The Philanthropist,” the cable series “Camelot” as well as Britain’s “The Hollow Crown: Richard II,” directed by Rupert Goold, and “Injustice.” Purefoy was most recently seen in Sony Pictures Classics’ Equity opposite Anna Gunn. Other recent film credits include High-Rise (2015) the feature adaptation of the classic J. G. Ballard novel by screenwriter Amy Jump, opposite Sienna Miller and Jeremy Irons; Stephen Campanelli’s action thriller Momentum (2015), opposite Olga Kurylenko; Wicked Blood (2014), directed by Mark Young, opposite Sean Bean and Abigail Breslin; John Carter (2012) with Taylor Kitsch and Samantha Morton; Ironclad (2011) with Paul Giamatti and Kate Mara; and Solomon Kane (2010) with Max von Sydow. His most prominent film roles include Spence in Resident Evil (2002), Rawdon Crawley in Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair (2004), opposite Reese Witherspoon, and the Black Prince in A Knight’s Tale (2001), alongside Heath Ledger. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in his final year at the Central School of Speech and Drama and spent six years in lead roles in theatre. He also starred in Flare Path at the Haymarket Theatre, opposite Sienna Miller. Purefoy hails from Taunton, England. “ It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” PAGE 5 LEONARD PINE Leonard Pine is a walking, sass-talking contradiction. He’s a black Republican who happens to be gay. He’s a man who wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member. Violence is always an option when Leonard’s around. Fast to anger and ready to back it up, he isn’t a man to take lightly or get on the wrong side of. He’s a black East Texas cowboy with an attitude – a bad one. He won’t just beat you up, he’ll piss on you when he’s done. MICHAEL KENNETH WILLIAMS Michael Kenneth Williams is one of this generation’s most respected and acclaimed actors. By bringing complicated and charismatic characters to life – often with surprising tenderness – Williams has established himself as a gifted and versatile performer with a unique ability to mesmerise audiences. Williams is best known for his remarkable work on “The Wire” which ran for five seasons on HBO. The wit and humour that Williams brought to Omar – the whistle- happy, profanity-averse, drug dealer-robbing stickup man – earned him high praise and made Omar one of television’s most memorable characters. Williams co-starred in HBO’s critically acclaimed series “Boardwalk Empire” which premiered in 2010. In the Martin Scorsese- and Terence Winter-produced show, Williams played Chalky White, a 1920s bootlegger and impeccably suited veritable mayor of Atlantic City’s African-American community. In 2012, “Boardwalk Empire” won a Screen Actors Guild Award® for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. He was recently seen playing the role of Freddy in the acclaimed HBO limited series “The Night Of,” opposite Riz Ahmed and John Turturro; the series was written by Richard Price and Steve Zaillian, who also directed the episodes. Williams recently wrapped the ABC limited series “When We Rise” from Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, set to air in February 2017. The series dives deep into the LGBT and Civil Rights movements that have taken place over the past few decades in San Francisco. In a turn from his more serious roles, Williams starred in the IFC comedy mini-series “The Spoils Before Dying” alongside Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph. “I ain’t no murderer. And I ain’t your boy.” PAGE 6 Williams made his feature film debut in the urban drama Bullet after being discovered by the late Tupac Shakur. He also appeared in Bringing Out the Dead which was directed by Martin Scorsese. His other film work includes roles in The Road, Gone Baby Gone, Life During Wartime, Brooklyn’s Finest, Wonderful World and Snitch, opposite Dwayne Johnson and Susan Sarandon. He was seen in José Padilha’s remake of RoboCop, starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton, and in a supporting role in Steve McQueen’s Oscar®-winning 12 Years a Slave with Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt. He also appeared in The Purge: Anarchy, the successful sequel to the box office-booming The Purge, as the resistance leader Carmelo Johns. In 2014, Williams filmed Captive opposite Kate Mara and David Oyelowo and Kill the Messenger opposite Jeremy Renner, as well as Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Inherent Vice. He also found time to reunite with director John Hillcoat in Triple 9, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson and Anthony Mackie, and appear in the Sundance film The Land. Williams also starred opposite Mark Wahlberg and John Goodman in Paramount’s remake of The Gambler and in the HBO Films movie Bessie, opposite Queen Latifah, for which he garnered an Emmy® nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Williams was recently seen in the Paul Feig-directed Ghostbusters reboot opposite Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth, and in New Regency’s Assassin’s Creed, based on the popular video game, opposite Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard and directed by Justin Kurzel. Giving back to the community plays an important role in Williams’s off-camera life. He is working to launch Making Kids Win, a charitable organisation whose primary objective is to build community centres in urban neighbourhoods that are in need of safe spaces for children to learn and play. Michael currently serves as the ACLU’s ambassador of Smart Justice. Williams also executive produces and serves as the investigative journalist for Black Market, a documentary program that exposes and comments on illegal markets throughout the world with a focus on the people involved and connecting with them on a human level. Black Market is a flagship show for Vice’s newly launched network VICELAND. Michael Kenneth Williams resides in Brooklyn, New York. PAGE 7 FLORIDA GRANGE Florida Grange is a smoking-sexy Southern girl with more brains than most men put together. Her poor background and the fact the she’s a black woman in 1988 Texas didn’t stop her from getting through law school and starting a successful law practice. Spirited and independent, Florida knows men judge her by her looks – and she isn’t afraid to use that, if it helps her get what she wants. She’s a realist and a survivor in a world where the cards are stacked against her. TIFFANY MACK Tiffany Mack has appeared on NBC’s “Timeless” and The CW’s “iZombie.” She will soon be seen in the independent feature Wicked Love, directed by Conor Allyn. Mack is a 2015 graduate of the Yale School of Drama’s M.F.A. Program. She resides in Los Angeles. “ Don’t underestimate me because I’m beautiful, Mr Collins.” PAGE 8 DETECTIVE MARVIN HANSON Detective Marvin Hanson is a good-looking, smart cop who despite being black has climbed the ranks in a Southern police force. He’s quietly ambitious and eager to get ahead. Hard-nosed and suspicious of everyone until they prove him wrong, he keeps his cards close to his vest and always has one eye on the politics of his position. CRANSTON JOHNSON Cranston Johnson burst into acting for numerous independent film and television projects after training in method acting. His first SAG role came when cast as Shawn Griffin in the Jerry Rees-directed film Susie’s Hope as well as the Tyler Perry-directed film The Single Moms Club starring Nia Long, Tyler Perry, Wendy McLendon-Covey and Amy Smart.