SPECIAL: Toni Collette is set as a series routine in the upcoming Netflix Canada restricted series Stubborn (fka High Pines. She is signing up with a cast led by Mae Martin, the series’ developer, executive manufacturer and co-showrunner, which likewise consists of fellow series regulars Sarah Gadon, Brandon Jay McLaren, Sydney Topliffe and Alyvia Alyn Lind along with repeating visitor stars Patrick J. Adams, Patrick Gallagher and Josh Close.
The eight-episode Stubborn is a thriller embeded in an agrarian however ominous town that checks out the perilous underbelly of the “distressed teenager market” and the everlasting battle in between one generation and the next.
Collette will play Leanne.
Martin acts as co-showrunner with Ryan Scott, who likewise is an executive manufacturer. Ben Farrell executive produces through his Objective Fiction, together with Hannah Mackay, Jennifer Kawaja and Bruno Dubé. Sphere Media is producing.
This marks a go back to Netflix for Collette who headlined the banner’s 2022 series Pieces of Her. She most just recently starred in Max’s restricted series The Staircase and Prime Video’s The Power. In functions, Collette, an Oscar candidate for The Sixth Sense, was just recently seen in indie Mafia MammaShe has turning up 2 Warner Brothers movies, Mickey 17 with Robert Patterson and Mark Ruffalo, directed by Bong Ho; and Clint Eastwood’s Juror # 2reuniting her with star with Nicholas Hoult after starring together in About a BoyCollette is repped by CAA, United Management, Finley Management and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.