According to Doctor Who News, Mekhi Phifer And Bill Pullman have joined the cast of next year’s Torchwood: The New World. They are joining returning cast members John Barrowman, Eve Myles, and Kai Owen.
Phifer is playing Rex Matheson:
He’s 28, the golden boy.
Has been, all his life. Harvard education, fast-tracker in the C.I.A., destined for success. Though he’s never taken it easy – Rex hustles, seduces and campaigns to get where he is today. He can talk his way into anything, then charm his way out, fast. He’s made a lot of enemies, but his friends and lovers would defend him to death. His choice of career is significant. Someone like Rex could make a fortune in Wall Street, or Hollywood. But choosing the C.I.A. says a lot about him: that for all his swagger, he does believe in justice. And will fight for it.
Slowly but surely, we see him make friends. He’s thrown together a bunch of people known as Torchwood, the only people who might have the answer to a global mystery. To Rex, at first, they’re a bunch of freaks. Welsh women and World War 2 Captains, what’s that about?! But as they race from one crisis to another, dodging assassins, blackmail, corruption and conspiracy, from Washington to Wales and the slums of Shanghai, Rex forges friendships in the heat of fire. He learns to trust his new colleagues. And they realize that this dangerous, dazzling, reckless man is the best friend they could ever have, in a world going to hell.
They frighten us, men like Rex. We wish we were him; we never will be.
And Bill Pullman is playing a much darker role than I’m used to seeing him in:
Oswald Jones is dangerously clever, a psychotic, convicted murderer and paedophile. He escapes his lifelong prison sentence on a technicality and quickly becomes a media sensation.
Genuinely repentant yet boiling with lust and rage, Oswald gets caught up in a terrifying worldwide crisis.
Skitch Commentary: Surprised to see some well-known actors joining up for Torchwood: The New World. I am definitely looking forward to seeing this. Children of Earth really is when Torchwood went from show I like to show I love. The New World should start airing on Starz next summer.
