NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Whose Line Is it Anyway?, Nashville and Outer Banks actor Charles Esten says he jumped at the chance to play Cain in the new post-apocalyptic drama, Homestead, because he was so unlike his past characters.
"I've been doing this a long time and I've never had an entrance like that where this mysterious helicopter lands on the mountain ridge and out steps a boot and it's a guy that [the main character] clearly did not want to call, but she felt she had to," Esten, 60, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
Now streaming on the subscription Angel app, the series is a follow-up to Homestead, the 2024 film adaptation of Jeff Kirkham and Jason Ross' Black Autumn series of books.
The movie starred Neal McDonough as Ian Ross, owner of a well-planned compound, while Dawn Olivieri plays Ian's devoutly Christian wife, Jenna, who wants to help as many desperate people as she can after a dirty bomb detonates off the coast of Los Angeles.
Jenna's generosity and welcoming nature often put her at odds with Chase's character, Jeff Eriksson, a highly-skilled security expert who is allowed to bring his wife, Tara (Kearran Giovanni), and their teen son Abe (Tyler Lofton) to the walled-off, self-sufficient community's remote location.
