EXCLUSIVE: West Duchovny (The Five-Star Weekend, Painkiller) is the latest to join AMC‘s NASCAR drama series Thunder Road from John Fusco. The previously announced cast includes Dennis Quaid, Chase Stokes, Michael Rooker, Matt Barr, and Maggie Grace.
Thunder Road is the multi-generational saga of the fictional Whitlock family, whose legacy in stock car racing is as deep as the family’s ties to the Southern hill country roots that shaped them.
Quaid stars as racing legend Duane Whitlock, aka The Wrecking Ball, a towering figure who built a racing empire from a legacy of moonshine runs and dirt tracks and refuses to let it die. With ruthless competitors who will stop at nothing to dethrone and destroy them, the Whitlocks are a blue-collar dynasty at the edge of extinction – and the old king is fighting to hold onto the crown.
Duchovny will play Cassie Whitlock, the youngest and most aggressive of the Whitlock siblings. Cassie has inherited Duane’s skill on the track and his insatiable will to win. Fiery, rebellious, and convinced that she belongs on the Daytona Speedway, she never hesitates to remind her old-school dynastic father how talented a driver she is — all the while engaging in dangerous liaisons of her own that could jeopardize the Whitlock racing legacy.
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Fusco is set to executive produce alongside showrunner Taylor Elmore, Cliff Roberts with Syndicate Entertainment, Mark L. Smith, and NASCAR Studio’s Tim Clark and John Dahl. Gladys Cheng serves as producer. The show is produced in association with NASCAR.
Duchovny can currently be seen in Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend, playing the daughter of Chloë Sevigny’s character opposite Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, D’Arcy Carden, and Gemma Chan. West previously starred in the Netflix limited series Painkiller for director Pete Berg, and in Hulu’s Saint X for director Dee Rees. She also appeared opposite Jim Gaffigan in Colin West’s independent feature Linoleum. Duchovny is represented by Untitled and Gersh.
