The Comeback is formally returning for season 3 — however is Malin Åkerman reprising her function as Juna Milken?
“That's what I'm hoping for,” Åkerman, 47, solely instructed Us Weekly whereas selling her Netflix sequence The Searching Wives. “I've been texting with Lisa [Kudrow] since I came upon the information was official.”
Åkerman mentioned she was simply as stunned as followers have been about The Comeback filming extra episodes, including, “There have been rumblings about it that I heard. Then it lastly got here out. That announcement video, it was the primary time I noticed it together with everybody else.”
HBO confirmed the information in June that the upcoming season, which begins manufacturing this summer time, would be the final. Kudrow, 61, and creator Michael Patrick King shared their pleasure over the information through a joint assertion, saying, “Valerie Cherish has discovered her approach again to the present tv panorama. Neither of us are stunned she did.”
The announcement revealed that The Comeback will return to HBO and HBO Max in 2026.
“I do know that Lisa and Michael Patrick King are deep within the writing course of proper now so I hope,” Åkerman shared with Us. “Lisa mentioned, ‘We'd love for that to occur and to your character to come back again for an episode or two.' However we'll simply must see the place the tales go on the present.”
Season 1 of the hit HBO mockumentary aired in 2005 earlier than being canceled. Almost a decade later, The Comeback was revived for season 2, consisting of eight episodes that aired in 2014. The primary season adopted Kudrow's Valerie as she filmed a actuality present known as The Comeback, which chronicled her journey on a brand new sitcom with younger costars as she tried to resuscitate her Hollywood profession. Season 2 picked up 10 years later as Valerie tried to provide a actuality TV pilot for Andy Cohen whereas showing in a documentary movie about her profession.
“[For season 3], they must comply with the story line. If it is sensible, then sure I'd come again but when it doesn't then I'll simply go to set and cry and simply go for a go to,” Åkerman joked. “However I like that present a lot. So I used to be equally as excited that it got here again. However I don't have any extra info than you do actually, sadly. I'm dying and I'm chomping on the bit [for more information]. Hopefully in a pair months, I'll know extra.”
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Åkerman performed a musician who — in her first-ever performing function — was solid because the lead character and niece of Aunt Sassy on Room and Bored. For now, Åkerman is targeted on her upcoming Netflix sequence, which premieres on Monday, July 21 and takes inspiration from Might Cobb's The Searching Wives novel.
“That was the function that I used to be provided. What that claims about me, I don't know. I'd learn all eight episodes and cherished it and I used to be the primary particular person to get solid on this present. They simply mentioned, ‘We are able to't see anybody else however you on this function.' However they have been so gracious and so fantastic and it positively is a dynamic function,” Åkerman teased. “It has many layers and it's all the juicy stuff that you really want in a task.”
She continued: “I used to be aware of all eight episodes, which is absolutely useful. As a result of lots of occasions if you find yourself on the journey of getting a TV present made you normally simply get the pilot episode, That doesn't provide the character arc and it doesn't provide the actual element into who this particular person is that you just're going to be taking part in.”
The Searching Wives premieres on Netflix Monday, July 21.
