NBCUniversal’s Joe Exotic Show Casts John Cameron Mitchell
Actor and writer-director John Cameron Mitchell has been cast in the title role of NBC’s upcoming Joe Exotic series, according to Entertainment Weekly. Mitchell first came to mainstream prominence on the strength of his 2001 feature-length rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and has since been steadily proven himself capable of poignant turns as a director (GLOW) and a performer playing unhinged but principled jerks (Shrill, The Good Fight)–so there will likely be a lot of humanity, commitment, and strangeness he’ll bring to the role.
The NBC series …