In some casting news, it has just been revealed that Daniel Stern has snagged his next series role. Per Variety, it has been reported that Stern has joined the cast of the Apple series For All Mankind. He will be featured in a series regular role as Eli Hobson, described as “the new administrator at NASA. A former Auto Industry CEO, he’s been tasked with bringing the agency into the 21st century, a challenge much bigger than he anticipated.”
Production on the fourth season is currently underway after the show was recently renewed. Originally premiering in 2019, the show depicts an alternate reality in which the global space race had never ended after the Soviet Union beat the United States with its journey to the moon. The show stars Joel Kinnaman, Shanel VanSenten, Jodi Balfour, Sonya Walger, Krys Marshall, Cynthy Wu, Casey Johnson, Coral Pena, and Wrenn Schmidt.
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In the show’s third season, which premiered in June, the show moved forward to the 1990s with a race to Mars. The characters had their loyalties tested when it came to their ambitions for Mars, culminating in a climactic conclusion. Plot details for what will happen next in season 4 have not yet been divulged beyond the introduction of Stern’s new character.
Daniel Stern Is a Veteran Actor
Daniel Stern is a veteran actor with dozens of roles under his belt, but he is particularly well remembered for his role as bandit Marv Murchins in Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Back in 2015, Stern reprised that role in a way by appearing as Marv in a homemade video in response to Macaulay Culkin playing a grown-up Kevin McCallister in a separate viral video. Stern created his video in conjunction with Christmas Eve, the perfect time to reprise that role.
“They were all a ton of fun,” Stern said of his Home Alone scenes in a Reddit AMA. “My favorite was having the tarantula crawl on my face. Not only was it really fun and funny to do but it was a personal challenge to overcome my fear of having something that icky and deadly crawling on my face. It was even freakier because I had to do that scream, which meant my mouth was wide open too - and I was afraid the little bastard might take a detour down my throat!”
Stern is also known for appearing in the City Slickers movies, as well as other films like Blue Thunder, Coupe de Ville, and Very Bad Things. In more recent years, he has appeared in films like A Christmas Story 2, Game Over, Man!, and James vs. His Future Self. He has also appeared on TV shows like Manhattan, Shrill, and Love.
