According to Variety‘s Power of Young Hollywood 2019, actor Stephan James will be returning to the second season of Homecoming on Amazon. He’ll reprise his role of Walter Cruz from the first season, which he starred in opposite Julia Roberts. He’ll now star opposite new series lead, Janelle Monáe.
The description of her character provides some clues about the premise of Season 2. The actress/musician plays a tenacious woman who finds herself floating in a canoe, with no memory of how she got there — or even who she is.
It has not been confirmed yet who else from the original cast would come back besides James, but the site is hearing that Bobby Cannavale, Hong Chau and possibly Shea Whigham are looking good to return.
Directed by Esmail and created by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg, Homecoming’s first season focused on Heidi Bergman (Roberts), a caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition back to civilian life. Walter Cruz (James) is one of these soldiers, eager to begin the next phase of his life. Overseeing Heidi and the facility is Colin Belfast (Cannavale), an ambitious company man whose manic demands point to questionable motives.
Four years later, Heidi has started a new life when a Department of Defense auditor (Whigham) comes to her with questions about why she left the Homecoming facility. Heidi begins to realize that there’s a whole other story behind the story she’s been telling herself.
Homecoming is executive produced by Esmail through his UCP-based production company Esmail Corp; as well as Chad Hamilton of Anonymous Content; the podcast’s Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg; and Chris Giliberti, Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber of Gimlet Media. Roberts exec produces through her production company Red Om Films.
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