JamesG
01-31-2014, 07:46 AM
"Veep" Fave Cast as Marcus's Dad on "About a Boy" -- EXCLUSIVE
by Sandra Gonzalez
Jan 30, 2014
NBC has recruited a "Veep" VIP to play Marcus’s dad on "About a Boy".
EW has learned exclusively that Tony Hale has been tapped to guest star on the upcoming Jason Katims-produced comedy as a character named Hugh Womple, father to Benjamin Stockham’s Marcus and ex to Minnie Driver’s Fiona.
Though never introduced in the 2002 movie version starring Hugh Grant, Marcus’s father was a character who appeared in the book by Nick Hornby, on which both the movie and TV show are based.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/01/30/tony-hale-about-a-boy/
by Sandra Gonzalez
Jan 30, 2014
NBC has recruited a "Veep" VIP to play Marcus’s dad on "About a Boy".
EW has learned exclusively that Tony Hale has been tapped to guest star on the upcoming Jason Katims-produced comedy as a character named Hugh Womple, father to Benjamin Stockham’s Marcus and ex to Minnie Driver’s Fiona.
Though never introduced in the 2002 movie version starring Hugh Grant, Marcus’s father was a character who appeared in the book by Nick Hornby, on which both the movie and TV show are based.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/01/30/tony-hale-about-a-boy/