Mr. Robot Season 2 Adds Meryl Streep’s Daughter Grace Gummer
By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2016 11:30 am EST
Variety is reporting that Grace Gummer has been cast as a series regular in Mr. Robot season 2. Gummer will play the role of Dominique “Dom” DiPierro, a young FBI field agent who is investigating the Evil Corp Hack which was masterminded by Elliot (Rami Malek) at the end of the first season. According to the trade publication, Dom “uses her instinctive skills to try and track down the fsociety members and find answers.”
Mr. Robot series creator Sam Esmail will be directing every one of the 10 episodes of the second season of the series. At the TCA press tour, he revealed that the second season would tell a lot more backstory and promised that “the timeline will get a little clearer.” The upcoming season is rumored to explore what happened to Elliot during the three days when the hack was being executed, which should answer some questions we have. Previously Esmail has said that the the second season will “get really fucking dark,” whatever that means.
And we now that Christian Slater will return for season 2 reprising his role as Mr. Robot aka Edward Alderson, even though its been revealed that the character no longer exists outside of Elliot’s mind. This could either be accomplished through flashbacks or Elliott might still be seeing his alter ego show up regardless of now being aware that he is not real.
And of course we know that BD Wong will reprise his role as White Rose, the enigmatic Dark Army hacker whose six minutes of screen time in the entire first season seems to be setting up something much bigger.
Mr Robot Season 2 is rumored to premiere in June or July of 2016, which might make sense considering the first season premiered on USA Network on June 24 2015.
