{"id":85724,"date":"2025-09-25T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85724\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:55:07","slug":"lucy-liu-to-star-in-peacock-series-superfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85724\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Liu to Star in Peacock Series \u2018Superfakes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPeacock<\/a>\u2019s crime drama Superfakes has found its lead.<\/p>\n

\n\tLucy Liu<\/a> will star in the series, which comes from creator Alice Ju (Beef), Universal Studio Group\u2019s UCP<\/a> and A24<\/a>; Josh and Benny Safdie<\/a> are executive producers. Liu, who will also exec produce, is set to play a \u201csmall-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer,\u201d as described by the show\u2019s logline, who becomes involved in a larger black market scheme in order to fund a better life for her family.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeacock ordered the series<\/a> in January. Ju has a history with the NBCUniversal-owned streamer, having worked as a writer and producer on the streamer\u2019s Poker Face, and with A24, which produces Beef for Netflix.<\/p>\n

\n\tJu will be the showrunner of Superfakes and executive produce with Josh Safdie<\/a>, Benny Safdie, Liu, Howard Klein and Olivia Gerke of 3 Arts, Ronald Bronstein\u00a0and Eli Bush.<\/p>\n

\n\tA two-time Emmy nominee, Liu is currently filming The Devil Wears Prada 2. She stars in and produced the upcoming feature Rosemead<\/a>; other recent credits include Prime Video\u2019s holiday movie Red One, Netflix\u2019s miniseries A Man in Full and voice work on Netflix\u2019s animated show Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld. She is repped by CAA, Framework and Schreck Rose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peacock\u2019s crime drama Superfakes has found its lead. Lucy Liu will star in the series, which comes from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[745,28756,434,18,117,19,17,56609,22024,13705,56610],"class_list":{"0":"post-85724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-benny-safdie","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-josh-safdie","16":"tag-lucy-liu","17":"tag-peacock","18":"tag-ucp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85724","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=85724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}