{"id":81635,"date":"2015-11-05T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=81635"},"modified":"2015-11-05T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T09:04:06","slug":"agent-carter-season-2-casts-wet-hot-american-summer-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/agent-carter-season-2-casts-wet-hot-american-summer-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent Carter Season 2 casts Wet Hot American Summer star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t exactly made a secret of the fact that we were massive fans of <em><strong>Agent Carter<\/strong><\/em>, and were delighted to see it renewed for a second season. While we were already excited about the prospect of new episodes, this bit of casting news has us even more so, with <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/tv\/news\/ken-marino-agent-carter-marvel-cast-1201632853\/\">Variety<\/a> confirming that Ken Marino has jumped aboard Season 2.<\/p>\n<p>The star of hit shows like <em><strong>Eastbound And Down<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Wet Hot American Summer: First Day At Camp<\/strong><\/em>, Marino will play mob boss Joseph Manfredi, who is described as a\u00a0\u201cvolatile leader in the Maggia crime syndicate who will help Peggy Carter\u2019s adversaries further their agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81637\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wet-hot-american-summer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-81637 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wet-hot-american-summer.jpg\" alt=\"wet-hot-american-summer\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wet-hot-american-summer.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wet-hot-american-summer-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wet-hot-american-summer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wet-hot-american-summer-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wet-hot-american-summer-616x411.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Marino in Wet Hot American Summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Is comic-book origins are a little bit less clear-cut. He started out life as costumed villain (and shameless Batman knock-off) Blackwing, joining the Masters of Evil and HYDRA while facing off against the likes of Captain America and Daredevil, before one defeat too many prompted him to turn back to being a crime lord. While we doubt that too much of this will make it into the series, don&#8217;t be surprised to see him get his hands dirty.<\/p>\n<p>He joins a cast that already includes the returning Hayley Atwell, James D&#8217;Arcy, Chad Michael Murray and Enver Gjokaj, as well as newcomers Wynn Everett, Currie Graham, Lotte Verbeek, Reggie Austin and Kurtwood Smith.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Agent Carter<\/em>: Season 2 will air in January 2016 on FOX in the UK.\u00a0You can find out more about the characters and the comics that inspired them by picking up the latest edition of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/bookazines\/sci-fi\/100-all-time-greatest-comics-revised-edition.html\">100 All-Time Greatest Comics<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cast of Agent Carter Season 2 has just got that bit better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":81636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[3574],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Agent-Carter.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}