Prime Video’s upcoming Scarpetta collection has a star-studded forged, which incorporates the father-son duo of Bobby Cannavale and Jake Cannavale.
“I’m taking part in principally the younger model of my pop as a detective in 1998 on this kickass detective present with Rosy McEwen,” Jake, 30, teased to Us Weekly solely late final yr whereas selling American Sports activities Story. “I’m very excited.”
Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis are set to tackle the roles of Dr. Kay Scarpetta and Dorothy Scarpetta, respectively, whereas Bobby, 55, will play former detective Pete Marino. Together with the present-day story traces, the present will embody flashbacks with McEwen, 31, as a younger Kay, Amanda Righetti as younger Dorothy and Jake as younger Pete.
When it got here to creating the character, Jake wasn’t too targeted on, basically, taking part in his father. In truth, one fairly iconic fictional cop got here to thoughts.
“My favourite present of all time is Legislation and Order: SVU,” Jake mentioned. “So, once I discovered that I’m taking part in a hotheaded male detective accomplice to a fiercely female protecting detective, I used to be like, ‘Sure, that is full circle.’ [An] absolute manifest dream.”
He was, in fact, referring to Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), the enduring characters on the middle of SVU since 1999.
On the time, Jake was simply “studying the scripts” and taking pictures hadn’t began but — however he was hopeful.
“It’s actually good,” he teased. “The present’s gonna be nice.”
The 66-year-old Curtis extra not too long ago provided Us extra particulars in regards to the present. Extra particularly how she and Kidman, 57, have been each forged.
“[Author] Patricia Cornwell has been writing a couple of health worker named Dr. Kay Scarpetta for over 20 years, and I can’t even inform you what number of hundreds of thousands of individuals have purchased these books,” Curtis informed Us at Amazon’s 2025 upfront presentation on Could 12. “Nicole goes to play Dr. Kay Scarpetta.”
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Kidman launched herself to Curtis on the Oscars — which finally led to the job supply.
“We exchanged hellos and just a little little bit of chick bonding,” Curtis mentioned. “However then we walked away and I used to be like, ‘OK, wow. That was loopy.’ And 6 months later she heard that we have been making the Scarpetta present and that I used to be producing and he or she principally mentioned, ‘I wish to be Scarpetta.’ After which once I went, ‘OK, nice,’ she mentioned, ‘However you’re going to be in it with me, proper?’”
She added, “It was that second of like, ‘Sure, Nicole Kidman. Sure. I’m going to be in a present with you.’ I had no alternative.”
Prime Video has already greenlit two seasons of the present, through which each Curtis and Kidman are govt producers. No launch date has been introduced simply but.
