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Mathew Baynton is haunting Ghosts.
The British actor, who co-created and starred successful the archetypal U.K. mentation of the sitcom which started successful 2019, volition beryllium making a astonishment cameo successful the 2nd play of the American CBS iteration. Baynton volition beryllium taking connected the role of Actor Pete, an English method histrion hired by the fake tv show Dumb Deaths to recreate the time Pete Martino (Richie Moriarty) died. Actor Pete then becomes obsessed with "getting to the truth" of real-life Pete's death, as the unit leader was changeable successful the cervix with an arrow by a chap scout.
"When I was invited to play a impermanent relation successful the CBS mentation of Ghosts, I was a small acrophobic that the 2 universes colliding would teardrop a spread successful the cloth of clip and space," Baynton told Entertainment Weekly in an nonfiction published Sept. 29. "Thankfully, that didn't happen, and alternatively I had a batch of amusive playing with a clump of precise beauteous comic people."
On the U.K. version, Baynton plays idiosyncratic wholly antithetic (and wholly dead). Since play one, he's starred arsenic the shade of Thomas Thorne, a melodramatic writer who yet falls successful emotion with married (and alive) Button House proprietor Alison (Charlotte Ritchie). Hey—at slightest successful the American version, Baynton could person a corporeal romance.
And for showrunners and enforcement producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, his cameo was thing but frightening.
"We'd been looking for a accidental to person 1 of the U.K. ghosts on, truthful we were thrilled erstwhile Mat said yes, and not amazed astatine each erstwhile helium knocked the relation retired of the park," they said. "Our main extremity erstwhile we acceptable retired to accommodate Ghosts was honestly to marque thing that the British creators liked, truthful to person this stamp of support from idiosyncratic we respect truthful much, was a immense validation for our full team."
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Check out Baynton's caller relation when Ghosts premieres Sept. 29 astatine 8:30 p.m. ET connected CBS.
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