Netflix's 'Ozark' entertainment news, casting information, auditions, and more.

Netflix has continued to keep audiences captivated with their new series "Ozark". The show is about a financial planner who moves his family from Chicago and upstate New York to the Ozarks in Missouri, where he's been laundering money for a drug kingpin. With Jason Bateman as Marty Byrde, Laura Linney as Wendy Byrde, Julia Garner as Charlotte Byrde and Sofia Hublitz as Jonah Hiller, the cast of 'Ozark' has many big names attached to it. While the show is still new, there are some future projects that Garner has coming up. She will star in "The Tribes of Palos Verdes" as well as another movie called "These Small Spaces". This project deals with an orphaned teen who moves into a large house with her older sister after their mother dies unexpectedly. The other movie is about a girl who obsesses over her best friend's brother, whom she kissed one night. She ends up getting in trouble with the law because of it and spends time hiding out at his home while they work through their feelings for each other. The cast of Netflix's 'Ozark' may be small but they are full of big names and great projects. With the show only being on for a few months, it will be interesting to see what else they have in store. For now, fans can continue watching as they wait for new seasons and projects from the cast.

About Ozark:

TV series is an American crime drama created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams for Netflix. The series is produced by Media Rights Capital. The show stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as a couple who move their family for money laundering.

Jason Bateman works as the director and executive producer for the TV series. The first season was released on July 21, 2017, and a second season was released on August 31, 2018. The third season was released on March 27, 2020. In June 2020, the series was renewed for a fourth and final season, which will feature 14 episodes split into two parts.

Ozark Cast:

• Jason Bateman as Martin "Marty" Byrde
• Laura Linney as Wendy Byrde
• Sofia Hublitz as Charlotte Byrde
• Skylar Gaertner as Jonah Byrde
• Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore
• Jordana Spiro as Rachel Garrison
• Jason Butler Harner as Roy Petty
• Esai Morales as Camino "Del" Del Rio
• Peter Mullan as Jacob Snell
• Lisa Emery as Darlene Snell
• Charlie Tahan as Wyatt Langmore
• Janet McTeer as Helen Pierce
• Tom Pelphrey as Ben Davis
• Felix Solis as Omar Navarro
• Damian Young as Jim Rattelsdorf

The registered trademarked Netflix series received largely good feedback from critics and fans. The series received 32 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series. Jason Bateman won Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2019, and Julia Garner winning twice consecutively for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and 2020.

Ozark centers around a money laundering scheme that goes wrong for a Mexican drug cartel. Financial advisor Martin “Marty” Byrde suggests a way to make up for the loss by creating a bigger money laundering operation in the Lake of Ozark in central Missouri. Overnight, Marty moves his family from Chicago to a resort community in Missouri. When the Byrde family arrives to Osage Beach, Missouri, they bump into local criminal families including the Kansas City Mafia.

Production:

Filming for Ozark took place in the state of Georgia due to the state’s tax breaks. The film crew constructed a set in Georgia after studying the Alhonna Resort property at Lake of Ozarks’ Alhonna Resort and Marina. Initially, Jason Bateman was going to be the only director for the first season, but due to the limited amount of time, he directed the first two and last two episodes.

To make the show as realistic as possible, the writers for the show hired an FBI agent who works on financial crimes into the writer’s room. Ozark also brought in a hedge fund manager to discuss how to move large sums of money.

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