“Days of our Lives” star Jackée Harry (Paulina Price-Carver) will appear as a guest star on the Netflix comedy “A Man on the Inside,” starring Ted Danson (“Cheers”), when it returns for Season 2 later this year on the streaming service.
While details on the character she’ll be playing are being kept under wraps, Deadline, which first reported the news, says that Harry could return for more episodes should the show be renewed for a third season.
Based on the documentary “The Mole Agent,” which received an Oscar nomination in 2021 for Best Documentary Feature, the series follows retiree Charles (Danson), who gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a PI and becomes a mole in a secret investigation.
Per Deadline, Season 2 of the show will follow an anthology format with Charles tackling a new case each season. In Season 2, he’ll go undercover at a college as a guest lecturer, something first teased in the Season 1 finale.
Besides Harry, the upcoming season’s cast also include such names as Constance Marie (“With Love”), David Strathairn (“The Bourne Legacy”), Gary Cole (“NCIS”), Jason Mantzoukas (“Taskmaster”), Jill Talley (“Mr. Show”), Linda Park (“Bosch”), Lisa Gilroy (“Interior Chinatown”), Madison Hu (“The Brothers Sun”), Max Greenfield (“The Neighborhood”), Michaela Conlin (“Bones”) and Sam Huntington (“Superman Returns”).
Danson’s real-life wife, Mary Steenburgen, is also joining the cast in a lead role, playing Mona Margadoff, a former musician who factors heavily in the case Charles is trying to solve. No more details are being provided, but I hear Mona is a professor at the college Charles will be investigating in Season 2 and there might be sparks between them.
Season 1 of “A Man on the Inside” spent its first five weeks since release in the Top 10 of Netflix’s most popular English-language TV shows list. Danson received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his role, and the show was named one of the American Film Institute’s top TV programs of the year in 2024.
In addition to creator Mike Schur, executive producers for Season 2 include Morgan Sackett and David Miner from 3 Arts Entertainment, Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibañez from Micromundo Producciones, and Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements from Motto Pictures.
Harry made her television debut in 1983 in the role of Lily Mason on “Another World.” She remained with the soap until 1986, working simultaneously on “227” as her iconic character Sandra Clark. Both series aired on NBC.