'American Hostage' For MGM+ Casts Mireille Enos

EXCLUSIVE: Mireille Enos (The Killing, For All Mankind ) is joining American Hostage in a series regular role.

Set in the 1970s, the psychological thriller greenlit by MGM+ earlier this year tells the true story of Fred Heckman ( Jon Hamm ), an Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular program.

Enos will play Barbara, the wife of Fred who is described as “formidable in her own right, intelligent and perceptive. Throughout the crisis, her burgeoning friendship with the hostage’s wife, challenges Barb’s usual sense of propriety and self-containment. Barbara has lived with a newsman long enough to know that breaking news trumps all else, but this story is differen