Michelle Monaghan might often find herself cast as the significant other of a male lead who drives a film or a series, but within those confines she routinely finds ways to make her own indelible mark. She did that in a smoldering turn opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Maggie Hart in the groundbreaking first season of the HBO crime anthology series True Detective ; as Angie Gennaro, the detective and romantic partner of Casey Affleck’s private eye Patrick Kenzie in the Ben Affleck-directed adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Dorchester mystery novel Gone Baby Gone ; and in films that include Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Trucker, Source Code, Patriot’s Day . And she often shows up as Julia Meade, the secreted wife of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character in the Mission: Impossible films, a run that began with her harrowing kidnapping by a Hunt nemesis played by the late Phil Seymour Hoffman, in the J.
J. Abrams-directed Mission: Impossible III. She’ll next be stealing scenes as the estranged wife of Vince Vaughn in Bad Monkey , the Florida -set Apple TV+ series adaptation of the Carl Hiaasen novel, crafted for series by the Ted Lasso executive producer Bill Lawrence.
Vaughn plays a detective who was suspended for using his car to bump his ex’s husband’s golf cart into the drink — with him on it. Throw in a severed arm that puts the cop on the scent of a sprawling real estate scandal and murders, and that is Bad Monkey. The series premieres next Friday.
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