Isabela Merced and Patrick Schwarzenegger to Play Lorena and John Bobbitt in Hulu's GOOD AMERICAN FAMILY Anthology Series

Hulu’s true-crime anthology Good American Family has cast its lead actors for the upcoming second season. Isabela Merced (The Last of Us) will play Lorena Bobbitt, with Patrick Schwarzenegger (The White Lotus) as her one-time husband, John Bobbitt.

Not yet titled, the limited series is inspired by the ripped-from-the-headlines story of the infamous Virginia couple, who incited a media circus that treated trauma as entertainment, launched a thousand dirty jokes and ignited a gender war.

The story revolves around the infamous 1993 incident in which Lorena cut off her husband’s penis with a kitchen knife after an argument at home. She later attributed the act to abuse during their marriage.

Katie Robbins is the show’s creator, writer and executive producer alongside Ellen Pompeo, who starred in the first season, which revolved around the stranger-than-fiction adoption story of Ukrainian orphan Natalia Grace Barnett.

The Bobbitt series marked one of two recent Hulu greenlights for Robbins and Pompeo; they’ve also partnered on Chicks, a dramedy pilot starring Pompeo, marking another outing with 20th TV, which was ordered in June.

The new show will be one in a line of projects to tell Bobbitt’s story; previous example include 2020’s I Was Lorena Bobbitt, part of Lifetime’s Ripped from the HeadlinesTV movie franchise, which was narrated and EP’d by Lorena, and the 2019 Amazon docuseries Lorena, produced by Jordan Peele.

via: Deadline