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Timothy Hutton is no longer part of the cast of FX’s long-term “Y: The Last Man,” the network showed Wednesday.
Hutton arrives when several actors have been changed now that the series is in production. Olivia Thirlby has replaced Imogen Poots as Hero Brown, while Ashley Romans takes on the role of Lashana Lynch Agent 355.
Initially announced as a regular cast member, Hutton had been hired to play the role of president of the United States. Now Paul Gross (“Due South”) has taken on the role, but it’s no longer like a normal series.
But Hutton’s departure also follows a report, published online in March via BuzzFeed News, which revealed a criminal complaint against the actor that had been filed with the Vancouver Police Department. Hutton and a friend in 1983, when she was 14. Hutton denied the allegations.
Hutton recently starred in Fox’s “Almost Family”, which he canceled last season.
“Y: The Last Man” is in the sci-fi comic strip through Brian K. Vaughan and Eisner Award-winning Pia Guerra in a post-apocalyptic world “in which a cataclysmic occasion decimats all mammals with a Y chromosome so far. for a cisgender man and his partner. The series follows the survivors of this new world as they struggle with their efforts to repair what has been lost and the opportunity to build something better.
Initially revived last year, production of “Y: The Last Man” was scheduled to begin in March, but is delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the last obstacle along the way for “Y: The Last Man”, which began its progression. After deciding to fly in 2018, Michael Green and Aida Mashaka Croal were named co-showrunners, but left later.
Eliza Clark is now the showrunner of the series, which began production this week in Toronto. He wrote the first two episodes, which are directed through Louise Friedberg: Diane Lane, Romans, Ben Schnetzer, Thirlthrough, Amber Tamblyn, Marin Ireland, Diana Bang, Elliot Fletcher and Juliana Canfield are the stars.
FX notes that all episodes of Season 1 will be directed through women, while the show’s branch managers are also typically women, adding cinematographers, production designer, costume designer, casting director, editors and specialist coordinator.
Clark is an executive manufacturer with Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda, Vaughan and Melina Matsoukas. The FX Productions series is expected to launch in 2021 FX on Hulu.
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