EXCLUSIVE: Jon Favreau’s new Disney+ collection, Oswald The Fortunate Rabbit, has set three of its leads: Ravi Cabot-Conyers (Skeleton Crew, Encanto), Mykal-Michelle Harris (Raven’s Dwelling, Blended-ish) and Ryder Allen (The Penguin, Palmer).
From author, producer and director Favreau for Walt Disney Studios, the animation/live-action hybrid is about Oswald the Fortunate Rabbit, a saucy, self-absorbed bunny.
Cabot-Conyers will play Jake, a hardworking center college pupil with a giant coronary heart.
Harris will play Jen, a creative center schooler who’s all the time forward of the sport.
Allen will play Taylor, a center college pupil who’s cautious however avoids turning down his pals.
Oswald the Fortunate Rabbit as a personality is essential to the Walt Disney Co. The cartoon, which bears a detailed resemblance to Mickey Mouse, has a fractured historical past with the corporate and performed a pivotal position within the creation of Disney’s most well-known animated character. Oswald was created in 1927 by Walt Disney and featured in 27 animated shorts. However after Common took management of the character in 1928, Disney created a brand new character as a alternative: Mickey Mouse.
Bringing Oswald dwelling had been a precedence for Disney CEO Bob Iger, and The Walt Disney Co. acquired the trademark in 2006. The character entered the general public area in 2023.
Cabot-Conyers’ latest credit embody enjoying Wim within the Disney+ collection Skeleton Crew, voicing Antonio within the hit Disney animated movie Encanto, and enjoying Leo within the characteristic thriller Grassland. He’s repped by Leisure 360, Paradigm and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
Harris is greatest recognized for her work reverse Nicole Kidman in HBO’s Huge Little Lies, Showtime’s The Affair, ABC’s Blended-ish as Santamonica Johnson, and enjoying a younger Raven-Symoné within the Disney Channel’s Raven’s Dwelling. She is repped by The Osbrink Company, OPE Companions and Del Shaw.
Allen most just lately performed a younger Oswald Cobblepott, working reverse Colin Farrell as older Oz, in HBO Max’s The Penguin. He additionally starred as Sam within the Justin Timberlake-led Apple movie Palmer. He’s repped by Paradigm and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller et al.
