EXCLUSIVE: Jaylen Barron (Blindspotting) is about for a collection common position in Ryan Murphy’s American Sports activities Story, the FX anthology restricted collection whose first season is predicated on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Soccer Inc., sources inform Deadline.
American Sports activities Story, a brand new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, focuses on a distinguished occasion involving a sports activities determine and re-examines it by way of the prism of at this time’s world, telling that story from a number of views. It hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
From author Stu Zicherman, the primary installment charts the rise and fall of NFL famous person Aaron Hernandez, performed by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his id, his household, his profession, his suicide and their legacy in sports activities and American tradition.
Barron will star as Shayanna Jenkins, Hernandez’s fiancée and mom of their younger daughter born in 2012, the identical 12 months they turned engaged. The pair met as highschool college students in Connecticut and she or he stood by him amid all his authorized points together with his arrest and conviction for the homicide of Odin Lloyd, who on the time of the crime was relationship Jenkins’s sister, Shaneah Jenkins.
It has been alleged that Hernandez had affairs with males whereas in a relationship with Jenkins, a side that might be explored within the anthology collection. As Deadline revealed solely, Josh Cannavale is about to painting Hernandez’s love curiosity.
Different beforehand introduced forged consists of Catfish Jean, Tony Yazbeck, Lindsay Mendez and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Along with Zicherman, govt producers additionally embody Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Brad Falchuk; Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy of Wondery; and Linda Pizutti Henry and Ira Napoliello of the Boston Globe.
Barron most not too long ago starred within the Starz dramedy collection Blindspotting within the position of Trish. She made her small display screen debut in 2012 on an episode of Fox’s Bones adopted by an look on the Disney Channel collection Shake It Up! She landed a collection common position in Netflix’s Free Rein in 2017 reprising the position in two specials: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Further credit embody See Dad Run for Nick at Night time, Disney Channel’s Good Luck Charlie and Showtime’s Shameless.
