Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen has been tapped for a lead role in Season 2 of Netflix’s comedy A Man On the Inside, joining her husband, the series’ star Ted Danson.
Created by Mike Schur, A Man On the Inside centers on Charles (Danson), a retired man who gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a PI and becomes a mole in a secret investigation.
The series is taking on a anthology format, with Charles tackling a new case each season. In Season 1, he went undercover at a retirement home. Season 2 will see him sleuthing at a liberal arts college, sources said.
The new destination was telegraphed at the end of Season 1 when Charles, a retired engineering college professor, started offering his services as a guest lecturer.
Steenburgen will play Mona Margadoff, a former musician who factors heavily in the case Charles (Danson) is trying to solve. No more details are being provided but I hear Mona is a professor at the college Charles will be investigating in Season 2 and there may be sparks between her and Charles.
In addition to being a couple in real life, Steenburgen and Danson played one on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Steenburgen and Danson headlined together the short-lived 1996 comedy Ink, and she also has guest starred on all of Danson’s series of the last two decades, including Becker, Bored To Death, The Good Place and Mr. Mayor.
Man On the Inside is based on the documentary The Mole Agent, a 2021 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary feature. Schur executive produces via Fremulon alongside Morgan Sackett, David Miner of 3 Arts Entertainment, Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibañez of Micromundo Producciones, Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements for Motto Pictures. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.
Season 1 of A Man on the Inside debuted atop Netflix’s weekly English series list and remained in the Top 10 for five weeks. It was named one of AFI’s 2024 TV programs of the year and Ted Danson was nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance.
Steenburgen most recently reprised her role as one of the leads in the sequel movie Book Club: The Next Chapter. She is repped by UTA, Entertainment 360 and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
