Wayne Brady Joins "The Good Fight" Season 5 as Love Interest for [Spoiler]
by Michael Ausiello
April 6, 2021


"The Good Fight" has retained actor/comedian/game show host Wayne Brady to play a new love interest for a Reddick/Lockhart staffer — but which one?

TVLine has learned exclusively that Brady will join the Paramount+ legal drama’s upcoming fifth season in the recurring role of Del Cooper, a comedian-turned-executive at a top streaming service who intersects romantically and professionally with the lawyers at the firm.

“We can’t imagine anyone better suited than Wayne to capture Del’s wit, confidence, and charm,” exec producers Robert and Michelle King tell TVLine in a statement. “We’re huge fans, and are thrilled to have a part worthy of his enormous, varied talents.”

https://tvline.com/2021/04/06/wayne-brady-the-good-fight-season-5-cast-del-cooper/

How Wayne Brady prepared to play a streaming TV executive on The Good Fight (https://www.avclub.com/the-good-fight-s-wayne-brady-wants-levar-burton-to-host-1847374314)

Brady his character, Del Cooper, is "a former stand-up comedian and a comedy pro who made it big and then was able to step aside and start his own streaming service. I filled in bits of his personality in terms of the kind of guy that Liz would be attracted to. He’s definitely someone who I kind of drew from myself, which I feel that you are supposed to do as an actor."

Wayne Brady is joining The Good Fight? What a shock this is because Wayne is always known as a comedian and he hopes that this role will make him cross over into dramas. Another thing I'm surprised at is that his character is gonna be named Del and I bet you CBS wanted to honor LMAD by naming a character after a show because when you look at it Del is deal without the a
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