Queer Casting: Tessa Thompson Booked a New Sci-Fi Thriller & More

It's time for another Queer Casting Roundup!

The Queer Casting Roundup is here once again to fill you in on the comings and goings of Hollywood's top queer stars! Whenever your favorite LGBTQ+ actors have new projects, we'll be here to cover them.

So strap in, it's time for this week's all-new queer casting roundup. Scroll through to learn how booked and busy your favorite queer actors are.

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Jena Malone Joins New Kevin Costner Western

Shortly after coming out as pansexual and poly, Jena Malone has landed another big movie, joining the ensemble cast of Kevin Costner's upcoming Western epic Horizon. The movie, which "chronicles a multi-faceted 15-year span of pre- and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West" also stars Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jamie Campbell Bower, Luke Wilson, Thomas Haden Church, Alejandro Edda, Tatanka Means, and Michael Rooker.

Clea DuVall to Star in Rian Johnson's 'Poker Face'

Happiest Season director Clea DuVall is joining the sprawling cast of Rian Johnson's upcoming mystery drama series Poker Face over at Peacock. The ten-episode anthology will also star Adrien Brody, Audrey Corsa, Benjamin Bratt, Charles Melton, Chloe Sevigny, Danielle MacDonald, Dascha Polanco, Ellen Barkin, Jameela Jamil, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judith Light, Lil Rel Howery, Niall Cunningham, Nicholas Cirillo, Nick Nolte, Ron Perlman, S. Epatha Merkerson, Simon Helberg, Stephanie Hsu, Tim Blake Nelson, and Tim Meadows.

Tig Notaro Is Coming to 'The Morning Show'

The Morning Show is about to get more gay, as dreamboat comedian Tig Notaro is set to join the cast for season 3 alongside Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Anniston, Julianna Marguilies, Nicole Beharie, and John Hamm. She'll be playing Amanda Robinson, the chief of staff to the corporate titan played by Hamm.

Tessa Thompson’s New Sci-Fi Thriller

Thor: Love and Thunder'sTessa Thompson will star opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the sci-fi thriller Ash, directed by musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus. Ash "watches as a woman (Thompson) wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed, and must then decide if she can trust the man (Gordon-Levitt) sent to rescue her. But as their investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events, he begins to wonder how innocent she really is."

Max Harwood’s New Horror Comedy

The Everybody's Talking About Jamie star has an all-new project called The Loneliest Boy. This coming-of-age horror-comedy follows the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) who, after being told he needs to make new friends after the death of his mother, "decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet. However, when he awakens the morning after his excavating escapades, he discovers that his newly acquired friends have mysteriously come to life overnight, launching them all into a series of misadventures as they try to keep their secret safe from neighbors, classmates, and social workers alike."