Serie "24" - Freddie Prince Jr. im Team der achten Staffel

Der amerikanische Schauspieler Freddie Prince Jr. soll in der achten Staffel der Echtzeit-Serie "24" mitspielen.

Freddie Prince Jr. wird den Charakter Davis Cole verkörpern. Hierbei soll es sich um einen ehemaligen Marine- Soldaten handeln, der in die Fußstapfen von Jack Bauer treten will.

Die Dreharbeiten zur neunten Staffel haben bereits begonnen und finden derzeit in New York statt.

Freddie Prinze Jr. as Jack Bauer Jr.?

Sources said Prinze is joining the cast of Fox's "24" as a regular, playing Davis Cole, a recently returned Marine who runs CTU Field Ops and wants to follow in Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) footsteps.

On the real-time drama, whose upcoming eighth season started production Wednesday, Prinze joins fellow new cast additions Anil Kapoor, who plays a Middle East leader; Chris Diamantopoulos, as the president's new chief of staff; and John Boyd as a CTU systems analyst. All of them are regulars, while Jennifer Westfeldt has come aboard as a recurring, playing a a journalist.

Also cast as a recurring on the 20th TV/Imagine series is Nazneen Contractor as Kapoor's daughter.

Prinze, repped by ICM and Brillstein, recently co-starred on the ABC comedy pilot "No Heroics."