Actress Geraldine Viswanathan has joined the Thunderbolts cast, replacing Ayo Edebiri in an undisclosed role after the Emmy-winning The Bear star dropped out of the project due to scheduling.
Geraldine Viswanathan joins a massive ensemble cast of actors playing some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s best-known anti-heroes, including Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as US Agent, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Agent Val, reports a popular media organisation.
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Although specific plot details remain top secret, the movie will effectively serve as Marvel’s version of the DC’s anti-hero team the Suicide Squad, with the characters brought together to do the dirty jobs the Avengers can’t do.
As per the source, Jake Schreier is directing from a script by Eric Pearson. Since Geraldine Viswanathan’s career launched in the 2018 teen-comedy Blockers, she’s appeared opposite Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney in Bad Education, opposite Dacre Montgomery in the 2020 rom-com The Broken Hearts Gallery and opposite Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks and Sarah Snook in The Beanie Bubble.
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She also starred in the comedy anthology series Miracle Workers with Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi and Karan Soni. Ayo is the second star to depart Thunderbolts in recent months; Steven Yeun left in January, telling the source that “time passing and things shifting kind of pulled me out of it.”