{"id":479317,"date":"2026-05-11T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:51:11","slug":"matt-bomer-joins-the-day-of-the-jackal-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479317\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Bomer Joins &#8216;The Day Of The Jackal&#8217; Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-bomer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-bomer\" data-tag=\"matt-bomer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Bomer<\/a> (Outcome, Fellow Travelers) has joined Season 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/peacock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peacock\" data-tag=\"peacock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peacock<\/a> and Sky\u2019s spy thriller drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-day-of-the-jackal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-day-of-the-jackal\" data-tag=\"the-day-of-the-jackal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Day of the Jackal<\/a> as a recurring opposite star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/eddie-redmayne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_eddie-redmayne\" data-tag=\"eddie-redmayne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Redmayne<\/a>. Details about Bomer\u2019s character are being kept under wraps but I hear he is playing a villain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Season 2 of The Day of the Jackal, which has started production in Budapest, Bomer joins fellow new cast additions Weruche Opia and Pablo Schreiber who had been cast as series regulars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on the Frederick Forsyth novel and the 1973 film adaptation from Universal, The Day of the Jackal follows an unrivaled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal (Redmayne), who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 1 earned multiple Golden Globe and Actor nominations and was a ratings hit on both sides of the pond. It launched as a Top 5 streaming original drama in the U.S. for its opening weekend, according to Nielsen, and logged a 28-day audience of 4.6m in the UK, the largest ever for a new Sky series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Day of the Jackal is produced by Carnival Films, part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group, and is commissioned by Sky Studios and Peacock. It is executive produced by Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant, Marianne Buckland (Carnival Films), Redmayne, writer David Harrower, director Brian Kirk, Sam Hoyle (Sky Studios), Sue Naegle, and Ronan Bennett. Lis Steele serves as producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhite Collar\u00a0alum Bomer is currently seen in Jonah Hill\u2019s Apple TV movie\u00a0Outcome\u00a0opposite Keanu Reeves, Hill and Cameron Diaz. He recently starred in the Hulu drama pilot Foster Dade, from Greg Berlanti and Bash Doran, and the streamer\u2019s comedy series\u00a0Mid-Century Modern, from Max Mutchnick, David Kohan and Ryan Murphy. Bomer\u2019s many collaborations with Murphy include HBO\u2019s\u00a0The Normal Heart,\u00a0which landed the actor an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe win. He also earned an Emmy and Globe nominations for the Showtime limited series Fellow Travelers. Bomer\u2019s whose credits also include HBO Max series\u00a0Doom Patrol and the Magic Mike movie franchise, is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Matt Bomer (Outcome, Fellow Travelers) has joined Season 2 of Peacock and Sky\u2019s spy thriller drama The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[10274,18,117,19,17,148075,13705,8228,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-479317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eddie-redmayne","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-matt-bomer","14":"tag-peacock","15":"tag-the-day-of-the-jackal","16":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}