'The Gifted' Season 1 Spoilers: Garret Dillahunt Cast as a Mutant Researcher
Garret Dillahunt has been cast as a recurring character on the upcoming FOX series "The Gifted" which is based on Marvel's "X-Men."
A report from Deadline states that "The Mindy Project" actor is set to portray a mutant researcher hired by Sentinel Services named Dr. Roderick Campbell.
This "professional and intense" character will be tasked to carry out a mission. Details of this particular mission, however, have yet to be revealed. It will be divulged in the show when it launches next month.
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For the uninitiated, "The Gifted" follows the lives of a suburban family who will, later on, discover that their children possess mutant abilities.
Amy Acker portrays Kate Stucker wife of Reed (Stephen Moyer). The couple has two children, Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) and Andy (Percy Hynes White), who both possess different mutant powers.
The story unfolds when the family is forced into hiding when a hostile government endangers the children's safety. Their story, however, will not be an easy one. Joining up with an underground mutant community, the family has more struggles to face.
"The Gifted" also stars Sean Teale as Marcos Diaz/Eclipse, who can absorb photons, Jamie Chung as Clarice Fong/Blink, whose power is teleportation, Emma Dumont as Lorna Dane/Polaris, who has the ability to control magnetism, Blair Redford as John Proudstar/Thunderbird, leader of the mutant community, and Coby Bell as Jace Turner, a man struggling with the demands of his job.
Apart from the "The Mindy Project," in which Dillahunt plays the titular character's colleague Jody Kimball-Kinney, his TV credits include "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," and "Burn Notice."
Dillahunt has also featured in films such as "12 Years a Slave," "Winter's Bone," and "Looper."
"The Gifted" season 1 premieres on Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. ET on FOX.
