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Netflix’s Umbrella Academy adds new cast members for season 2

ByDavid Harris (Razor)|
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 11: Tom Hopper attends Netflix's 'Umbrella Academy' Screening at Raleigh Studios on May 11, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 11: Tom Hopper attends Netflix's 'Umbrella Academy' Screening at Raleigh Studios on May 11, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix)

The Umbrella Academy, Netflix’s off-beat superhero show, was a surprisingly fresh take on the genre embraced by critics and viewers alike. It’s coming back for a second season, and it’s staffing up.

“On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before,” reads the official synopsis. “Seven are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his ‘children’ to save the world. But not everything went according to plan.”

Season 1 ended on a huge cliffhanger, and we have no idea what direction season 2 will take. The first season covered a lot of material from the Dark Horse comic on which the show is based.

Part of the charm of the show its eclectic cast. For season 2, Netflix has hired three new cast members:

  • Ritu Arya (Humans) plays Lila, “a chameleon who can be as brilliant or as clinically insane as the situation requires.” She has a “twisted sense of humor.”
  • Yusuf Gatewood (Originals) plays Raymond, a good husband and “a born leader with the smarts, gravitas, and the confidence to never have to prove it to anyone.”
  • Marin Ireland (Y: The Last Man) is Sissy, a “no-nonsense Texas mom who married young for all the wrong reasons.” She is “eager to rediscover what life and love has to offer.”

Lila and Raymond sound like they’re two of the other 43 super-powered infants. Sissy may be the same, but her description doesn’t give it away.

Naturally, all seven of the original seven Umbrella Academy members are returning, including Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min and Ellen Page. There’s no release date yet set. Stay tuned.

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