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Billboard Women in Music 2025 EXCLUSIVE: Chris Coy ( Bass Reeves , The Peripheral) has joined the cast of HBO ’s upcoming drama series Lanterns , based on the Green Lantern DC comic. In a guest starring role, Coy will play the new character of ‘Waylon Sanders,’ an intelligent survivor or a nervous truck driver. Age and real name unknown, he’s unbound by the laws of nature.
He joins the previously announced cast: Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, Kelly MacDonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Ulrich Thomsen, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Sherman Augustus, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Jason Ritter and Nathan Fillion. Related Stories 'The White Lotus' Season 3: Everything We Know About The Cast, Premiere Date & More 'The White Lotus' Season 3 Finale Boasts Runtime Of 90 Minutes The series, from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King, follows new recruit John Stewart (Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.
HBO produces the eight-episode series Lanterns in association with Warner Bros Television and DC Studios. Mundy, who serves as showrunner, Lindelof, and King co-wrote and executive produced. James Hawes directed and executive produced, with Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Alik Sakharov also tapped to direct.
Coy will next be seen supporting Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor in Bad Robot’s upcoming Flowevale Street , followed by his series regular role opposite Jason Bateman and Jude Law in the Netflix limited series Black Rabbit . He recurred opposite David Oyelowo on Bass Reeves for Taylor Sheridan, was a series regular on Amazon’s The Peripheral for Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and starred in the Billy Porter-directed episode of FOX’s Accused . He starred in the ABC miniseries Women of the Movement and was a series regular for David Simon opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal on HBO’s The Deuce.
Prior, Coy also starred for Simon, portraying real-life journalist ‘A.C. Thompson’, in HBO’s award-winning New Orleans-set post Hurricane Katrina drama Treme.
Additionally, he had recurring roles in HBO’s True Blood and Cinemax’s Banshee . In film, Chris plays a supporting lead in the 2024 indie feature The Absence of Eden , Cowboys (2020) and The Killing of Two Lovers (2020). Additional credits include The Front Runner (2018), Kathryn Bigelow’s civil rights drama Detroit, and Ed Zwick’s Trial By Fire .
He also starred opposite Juno Temple in Elgin James’ Little Birds . Coy is represented by Verve, Main Title Entertainment, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer..
