Charlie Kaufman’s FX pilot gains a Catherine Keener and a Sally Hawkins
Charlie Kaufman’s new FX comedy pilot, How And Why, will see him reuniting with at least one frequent creative collaborator, as Catherine Keener signed on to a role in the pilot yesterday. Should the pilot go to series (which, c’mon, it’s going to), Keener will play a recurring guest role on the series, which will free her up to pursue other things, like that season of True Detective we’re writing in our heads for her to star in with Angela Bassett. How And Why also seriously upped its “fast-talking brunettes” quotient by adding recent Oscar nominee (for Blue Jasmine) Sally Hawkins in a role that will be a series regular, should the show go forward. FX announced back in January that How And Why, which marks Kaufman’s first foray into TV since the end of the much-lamented (by us) Ned And Stacey, would be headlined by John Hawkes and Michael Cera. (Kaufman actually also contributed a story to Moral Orel, if IMDB is to be believed, but that work went uncredited.)