'Black Mirror' is Rounding Out its Cast for Season 6

Black Mirror is all set for a comeback after three years with its new season.

The upcoming sixth season, which has yet to set a premiere date, is rounding out its cast. The show is now believed to be in production. Sources indicate that the new faces joining the show are Zazie Beetz, Paapa Essiedu, Josh Hartnett, Aaron Paul, Kate Mara, Danny Ramirez, Clara Rugaard, Auden Thornton and Anjana Vasan. This casting specifically spans three episodes, and it’s understood more actors will join up for further episodes of the show.

As we reported earlier that the sixth season is on its way. It will have more episodes than the previous one which had only three episodes. A source also revealed that the latest season has even more cinematic in scope, with each episode being treated as an individual film. 

Beetz stars in Donald Glover’s FX series Atlanta and on the big screen in Joker, The Harder They Fall and in the upcoming Bullet Train; Essiedu starred in Michaela Coel’s HBO series I May Destroy You, as well as in series The Gangs of London and The Lazarus Project; Hartnett last starred in Sky’s The Fear Index and next up will be in Oppenheimer; Paul stars in HBO’s Westworld, and recently revived his Breaking Bad role for Netflix in El Camino and is set to appear in the final season of AMC’s Better Call Saul; Mara recently starred in the Amazon series A Teacher and on FX’s Pose and will appear in the upcoming abortion movie Call Jane, which premiered at Sundance; Ramirez recently starred in Top Gun: Maverick and in the Disney+/Marvel drama The Falcon and the Winter Soldier; Rugaard starred in Sky series The Rising; Thornton recently appeared on the final season of NBC’s This Is Us; and Vasan starred in Peacock’s We Are Lady Parts and on the final season of AMC’s Killing Eve.

It’s been three years since Season 5 of “Black Mirror” premiered on Netflix in June 2019. The forthcoming season is the first to emerge since creator Charlie Brooker and his creative partner Annabel Jones left their production company House of Tomorrow, which was backed by Endemol Shine Group, in January 2020, and set up shop under new production banner Broke and Bones. Netflix invested in the company soon after through a mega deal worth up to $100 million.

“Black Mirror” began life on U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, where it aired for two seasons before moving to the streaming giant and gaining a more global profile.