{"id":65637,"date":"2025-07-14T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65637\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:19:12","slug":"high-potential-season-2-casts-mekhi-phifer-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65637\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;High Potential&#8217; Season 2 Casts Mekhi Phifer (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/mekhi-phifer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mekhi-phifer\" data-tag=\"mekhi-phifer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mekhi Phifer<\/a> has joined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/high-potential\/\" id=\"auto-tag_high-potential\" data-tag=\"high-potential\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High Potential<\/a>\u201d Season 2 at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/abc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abc\" data-tag=\"abc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> in a recurring guest star role, Variety has learned exclusively. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tExact character details are being kept under wraps, aside from the fact that Phifer will play a character who becomes involved in major crimes. Phifer will appear alongside series lead Kaitlin Olson as well as cast members Daniel Sunjata, Javicia Leslie, Deniz Akdeniz, Amirah J, Matthew Lamb, Steve Howey, and Judy Reyes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn television, Phifer previously starred in \u201cER\u201d for nearly 150 episodes, while he has also led shows like \u201cFrequency\u201d at The CW, \u201cLie to Me\u201d at Fox, \u201cHouse of Lies\u201d at Showtime, and \u201cTruth Be Told\u201d at Apple TV+. In film, Phifer is perhaps best known for his role in the film \u201c8 Mile,\u201d while he has also appeared in features like \u201cDawn of the Dead,\u201d \u201cI Still Know What You Did Last Summer,\u201d the \u201cDivergent\u201d films, and \u201cO.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe is repped by Gersh and Brookside Artist Management. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHigh Potential\u201d originally debuted on ABC in September 2024. The series received positive reviews upon its release, with ABC picking it up for Season 2 in January. It is based on the French series \u201cHaut Potentiel Intellectuel.\u201d The series will return for its second season this fall airing Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET\/PT on ABC and streaming next day on Hulu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDrew Goddard created the series and executive produces along with Sarah Esberg via Goddard Textiles. Todd Harthan executive produces and serves as showrunner. Olson executive produces in addition to starring,w ith Marc Halsey also executive producing. 20th Television, where Harthan is under an overall deal, is the studio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mekhi Phifer has joined \u201cHigh Potential\u201d Season 2 at ABC in a recurring guest star role, Variety has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8811,185,171,16772,46617,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-65637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-high-potential","12":"tag-mekhi-phifer","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114853207441591171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}