Production has started in Los Angeles County on Season 2 of Prime Video’s spy drama series Mr. & Mrs. Smith, from Amazon MGM Studios and New Regency.
Season 1 stars Maya Erskine and Donald Glover are back, with Erskine also joining Glover as an executive producer for Season 2. The duo are believed to be reprising their eponymous John Smith & Jane Smith roles; to what extent is unclear.
As previously reported, a new, younger John & Jane couple is expected to be introduced in Season 2. Mark Eydelshteyn (Anora), who was cast in late 2024, is set for the John role.
Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) had been in negotiations to star opposite him. Filming had been targeting a fall 2025 start; when it was pushed, that created a dates conflict for Thatcher and her commitment to the final season of Yellowjackets, leading to her departure. The role, which had been eying Billie Eilish early on, has been recast.
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The setup of the new season is being kept under wraps; there had been a number of roles auditioning actors. Season 1 featured multiple Janes and Johns.
From co-creators and executive producers Glover and Francesca Sloane, Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a reimagining of the 2005 New Regency film of the same name. Amid the Season 2 delay, Sloane, who was showrunner for Season 1, moved to HBO last September.
In January, Anna Ouyang Moench (Beef) joined as showrunner, writer, and executive producer alongside Glover. Yariv Milchan, Michael Schaefer, Stephen Glover, Anthony Katagas, and Fam Udeorji return as executive producers.
The series a year ago was awarded a $22.4M tax credit by the California Film Commission for relocating from New York, where Season 1 was shot, to Los Angeles County. The credit still applies, I hear.
In Season 1 of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which was released in 2024, two lonely strangers (Glover, Ersine) land jobs working for a mysterious spy agency that offers a life of espionage, wealth, world travel, and a dream brownstone in Manhattan. The catch? New identities in an arranged marriage as Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. As they navigate high-risk missions, their cover story becomes increasingly complicated when real feelings begin to emerge. What’s riskier: espionage or marriage?
Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned 16 Emmy nominations for its first season, winning two statuettes. The nominations included an Outstanding Lead Actress In a Drama Series nom for Erskine. She recently lent her voice to the Emmy-nominated animated series Blue Eye Samurai and previously starred in the Emmy-nominated series PEN15, which she also co-created.