EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios and New Regency are filling the roster of eponymous Mr. and Mrs. Smiths for Season 2 of the Prime Video spy drama series. Francesca Scorsese (We Are Who We Are) will star as a Jane Smith in the new season of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which started production in Los Angeles last month, sources said. Series co-creator, executive producer and Season 1 star Donald Glover is set to direct multiple episodes in Season 2 after helming the Season 1 finale, I hear.

Details about the plot of Season 2 are being kept under wraps. Season 1 leads Glover and Maya Erskine are believed to be reprising their John Smith and Jane Smith roles, respectively; to what extent is unclear.

They are being joined by younger Mr. and Mrs. Smith pairs, one of them played by Mark Eydelshteyn and Talia Ryder. Scorsese is believed to be part of another couple.

From co-creators and executive producers Glover and Francesca Sloane, Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a reimagining of the 2005 New Regency film of the same name.

Anna Ouyang Moench serves as showrunner, writer, and executive producer alongside Glover for Season 2. Yariv Milchan, Michael Schaefer, Stephen Glover, Anthony Katagas, and Fam Udeorji return as executive producers, joined by Erskine.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned 16 Emmy nominations for its first season, winning two statuettes. 

Scorsese was part of the main cast of HBO/Sky Atlantic’s 2020 coming-of-age limited series, We Are Who We Are, co-created and directed by Luca Guadagnino. She made her directorial debut with a segment in the 2021 Netflix docuseries Stories Of A Generation — with Pope Francis.

More recently, Scorsese was featured in the ensemble indie film Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point, which debuted at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and can currently be seen in the coming-of-age Netflix comedy Roommates. She is directing her next short film, Adults Only, and working on a book with A24. Scorsese is repped by WME, LBI Entertainment, 42W and Hansen Jacobsen.