Jesse Williams Nabs Lead in ‘Costiera’ Drama for Prime Video Italy

Etan Vlessing
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Only Murders in the Building star Jesse Williams has taken the lead role in Costiera, an original drama for Prime Video Italy.

Williams will play Daniel De Luca, a half-Italian former U.S. marine who returns to Italy, his childhood home, as a fixer in a luxury hotel where one of the owner’s daughters disappears. He must find her and bring her home, while sorting the ever-changing problems of the exclusive hotel guests.

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Production on Costiera on Italy’s Amalfi Coast follows the success of the second season of The White Lotus, the HBO Max series also set in a luxury hotel in the same picturesque region of Italy.

Emmy winner Adam Bernstein (Breaking Bad, 30 Rock) will direct the English-language action comedy. The co-producers are Amazon MGM Studios, which retains the distribution rights for Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and Fremantle’s Lux Vide, which will handle global sales elsewhere worldwide starting at the London TV Screenings at Fremantle Presents this week.

Lux Vide has also produced global dramas like Medici, Leonardo and Devils, starring Patrick Dempsey. In Only Murders, Williams guest starred during the third season as a documentarian interested in a case that Mabel (Selena Gomez), Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Short) were looking to solve.

His other credits include Your Place Or Mine, Grey’s Anatomy and the Broadway stage play Take Me Out.

Production has started on Costiera, which is based on an idea by Luca Bernabei and written by Elena Bucaccio, Matthew Parkhill and Francesco Arlanch.

“Jesse provides a perfect combination of intelligence, charisma, and humor, and we’re incredibly lucky to have to have him at the centre of our show,” director Bernstein said in a statement.

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