The Actor Playing Lizzy Caplan’s Obsession in Fatal Attraction Revealed

Joshua Jackson is about to partake in an affair he’ll quickly remorse. 

On Jan. 20, Paramount+ introduced that Jackson has been forged reverse actress Lizzy Caplan within the streamer’s new authentic sequence, Deadly Attraction. Jackson will play Dan Gallagher, Caplan’s obsession after a short affair.

Deadly Attraction is a reimagining of the basic 1987 psychosexual thriller, starring Glenn Shut and Michael Douglas, and “will discover deadly attraction and the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity by means of the lens of contemporary attitudes in direction of robust girls, persona problems and coercive management,” in keeping with the sequence description.

Within the authentic movie, Dan Gallagher (Douglas) is a married man whose one-night stand, Alex Forrest (Shut) rapidly turns from lover to stalker.

“Joshua is an unbelievable expertise who creates fantastically sophisticated characters on each the display screen and stage,” the president of Paramount+ authentic scripted sequence Nicole Clemens stated of the 43-year-old actor. “He and Lizzy are completely matched to inform a nuanced and trendy narrative in regards to the complexities of the human psyche. We’re thrilled to associate with them to convey this provocative and charming story to a brand new era.”