Black Widow Adds Actors Lola Petticrew and Scoot McNairy to Cast

Lola Petticrew and Scoot McNairy have joined the cast of Hulu’s as-yet untitled project from Elizabeth Meriwether, which is loosely inspired by the 1987 film Black Widow.Lola Petticrew and Scoot McNairy join Emmy Rossum, who was previously announced as the lead. Rossum will play an FBI agent who attempts to track down a female serial killer using secrets from her past.


Lola Petticrew

The original Black Widow film, directed by Bob Rafelson, follows two women: Catherine (played by Theresa Russell), who marries wealthy men only to murder them for their money, and Alexandra (Debra Winger), a U.S. Department of Justice agent who becomes obsessed with the case and wants to get Catherine at any cost.

Elizabeth Meriwether serves as executive producer, along with Rossum and Sara Moskowitz through Rossum’s production company Composition 8, with Ron Bass (the writer of the original film) also attached as executive producer. The series is produced by 20th Television — Meriwether’s creative home for the past decade — and Searchlight TV.

Irish actress Lola Petticrew, who was named one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow in 2021, made a splash as IRA member Dolours Price in the FX miniseries Say Nothing, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award and won the IFTA Award for Best Actress. She also starred as Izzy Brannick in the BBC crime series Bloodlands.


Scoot McNairy

Emmy-nominated Scoot McNairy recently wrapped filming on the Netflix series Man on Fire, which stars opposite Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and is directed by Steven Caple Jr. McNairy has appeared in two back-to-back Oscar-winning films: Argo (directed by Ben Affleck) and 12 Years a Slave (directed by Steve McQueen).

On television, McNairy has played Gordon Clark in AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire, Bill McNue in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017), Walt Breslin in Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico, Tom Purcell in the third season of HBO’s anthology series True Detective, and Rod Rosenstein in the Showtime miniseries The Comey Rule.