New HBO Show, “In Treatment”
Blair Underwood, Melissa George and Oscar winner Dianne Wiest have been tapped to co-star opposite Gabriel Byrne in HBO’s half-hour drama “In Treatment.”
The project, based on the popular and critically acclaimed Israeli series, centers on Paul (Byrne), a therapist who is calm, smooth, insightful and nonconfrontational with his patients but becomes a testy self-doubting man full of barely concealed anger when he is a patient seeing his own shrink.
Underwood will play one of Paul’s patients, a fighter pilot who suffers the effects of a botched raid he was involved in years before that killed not only he three perpetrators but three underage hostages.
George will play another patient, a resident in anesthesia at John Hopkins Hospital who is infatuated with the older, married Paul.
Wiest will play Paul’s former supervisor and mentor who he goes to see for a therapy session eight years after dropping her.
Underwood, George and Wiest join previously cast Byrne, Embeth Davidtz and Mia Wasikowska.
“Treatment” is executive produced by Hagai Levi, Steve Levinson and Mark Wahlberg.
Rodrigo Garcia, who also is directing, is co-executive producing with Noa Tishby.
