Paramount+ legal drama Discretion is expanding its cast as production gets underway. Stephan James (I Play Rocky, If Beale Street Could Talk) and Colton Ryan (The Girl From Plainville) will join Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning and Josh Lucas as series regulars in the upcomng series from Chandler Baker and A24.

Written and executive produced by Chandler Baker and executive produced by Susannah Grant, Discretion is a legal thriller about a summer associate Lenny (Fanning) at a prestigious Dallas law firm who uncovers a web of NDAs masking a dark truth. When she realizes she signed the same agreement, her discoveries put her in the crosshairs of the firm’s most powerful female partner Sharon (Kidman)—upending their mentor-protégé dynamic and raising the question: who gets to keep secrets, and at what cost.

James will play “Logan,” a sharp corporate associate who becomes a mentor to Lenny. Ryan will star as “Boone,” Lenny’s (Fanning) ex-boyfriend, a recovering addict from an affluent Dallas family, now nine months sober living at a halfway house while quietly trying to rebuild his life.

Matt Shakman serves as executive producer and will direct the first four episodes. Kidman and Per Saari (Blossom Films), Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward (Lewellen Pictures), Joe Hipp (CUT TO) and Jordan Cerf (Linden Entertainment) also serve as executive producers along with A24.

James starred in Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk and in the Prime Video thriller series Homecoming, James will next be seen portraying Carl Weathers in I Play Rocky, which will premiere at TIFF next month. James recently signed with the Gersh Agency and continues to be repped by Range Media Partners, HillTop Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Ryan, known for his starring role opposite Elle Fanning in Hulu miniseries The Girl From Plainville, is repped by The Gersh Agency and TFC Management.

Amy Sedaris, the comedic multi-hyphenate behind truTV’s Emmy-nominated At Home with Amy Sedaris, is set to star alongside Ben Stiller and Benicio Del Toro in Protective Custody, the Apple TV comedy series that we scooped in May.

No word yet on Sedaris’ role.

Hailing from Mike Judge, Steve Hely and Dave King, Protective Custody follows a disgraced financier accused of massive fraud who is thrown into protective custody, where he must navigate prison politics, salvage his reputation, and confront the consequences of his actions while awaiting trial.

The show will be co-written, co-showrun and exec produced by Judge, Hely and King, with Judge also attached to direct. Ben Silverman, Howard Owens and Rodney Ferrell exec produce for Propagate Content, alongside Stiller and John Lesher for Red Hour, Michael Rotenberg and Oly Obst for 3 Arts Entertainment, Nanette Burstein, and Blair Breard.

An actress, comedian, and writer known for Strangers with Candy and At Home with Amy Sedaris, Sedaris has recently appeared in projects like Doctor Odyssey, Elsbeth and the Netflix rom-com Office Romance. Earlier this week, we announced her as starring alongside SNL‘s Veronika Slowikowska in the indie comedy Stephanie, Bride to Be. She is repped by CAA and attorney James Adams.

EXCLUSIVE: Widow’s Bay star Kingston Rumi Southwick and Arthur Conti, of Mike Flanagan’s upcoming Carrie, have joined Ariana Greenblatt in Egg Baby, Amazon MGM’s new romantic comedy from director Natalia Anderson and XYZ Films.

Written by Sawyer Perry, Egg Baby follows a rebellious artist (Greenblatt) and a golden-boy quarterback (Southwick) who are forced to co-parent an egg for health class, only to find that raising “Yolk-o” might crack open something real between them.

Conti’s role hasn’t been disclosed. XYZ Films is producing with Allison Friedman (The Mortuary Collection, The Fix), in association with BuzzFeed Studios. The film is set to stream globally on Prime Video.

Southwick is a fast-rising actor who broke out with roles in two recent buzz titles. Most recently, he’s been seen playing Matthew Rhys’ son in Widow’s Bay, the breakout horror comedy from Apple TV, which scored the most Emmy nominations of any freshman series this year. Prior to that, he was seen playing the son of Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Negga in Apple’s hit legal drama Presumed Innocent. Also seen in Amazon’s thriller series 56 Days, Southwick is repped by Untitled Entertainment and attorney Erik Hyman of Paul Hastings.

Currently, Conti can be seen opposite Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the Mubi slasher from Jane Schoenbrun that nabbed the Queer Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Previously playing a key role in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Conti’s upcoming slate includes Ti West’s Ebenezer, in addition to Flanagan’s series adaptation of the Stephen King classic Carrie. He is repped by WME, The Artists Partnership, and Myman Greenspan.