EXCLUSIVE: Michael Hsu Rosen (Pretty Smart, Tiny Pretty Things) is set for a major recurring role in the upcoming second season of Apple TV‘s legal thriller Presumed Innocent.
Hsu Rosen’s character info as well as plot details for Season 2 are being kept under wraps, but he joins star and executive producer Rachel Brosnahan, along with series regulars Matthew Rhys, Courtney B. Vance, Fiona Shaw, Jack Reynor and John Magaro.
From David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams, the anthology series’ second installment, which will be filmed in California, is inspired by Dissection of a Murder, the debut legal thriller novel by Jo Murray. It centers on Leila (Brosnahan), an ambitious defense attorney who takes on a high-profile case. Vance plays Leila’s boss at the law firm; Shaw plays a partner at the firm and Leila’s second chair; Rhys plays Leila’s husband, the prosecutor on the case; and Reynor plays her client, the defendant.
Led by Jake Gyllenhaal, Season 1, inspired by Scott Turow’s courtroom thriller of the same name, ranked as the most watched drama on Apple TV+ at the time of its 2024 release.
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Presumed Innocent hails from Bad Robot Productions and David E. Kelley Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Kelley serves as showrunner on season two alongside Erica Lipez. Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich executive produce for Bad Robot. Kelley executive produces through David E. Kelley Productions alongside Matthew Tinker and Lipez. Dustin Thomason also serves as executive producer. In addition to starring, Brosnahan executive produces. Season 1 star Gyllenhaal executive produces under his Nine Stories banner. Turow and Jo Murray, author of Dissection of a Murder, co-executive produce.
Season 1 of Presumed Innocent landed four Emmy Award nominations, including Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Gyllenhaal; Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Bill Camp; Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Peter Sarsgaard; and, Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Ruth Negga.
Hsu Rosen was most recently seen in a recurring role in Sex Lives Of College Girls and guest-starring on Elsbeth. He was a series regular on Netflix’s Glamorous, Pretty Smart and Tiny Pretty Things. Hsu Rosen is repped by CESD Talent Agency and TMT Entertainment Group.