Felicity Huffman to star in Baseball comedy alongside 'Peanut Butter Falcon' star Zack Gottsagen
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The project from Kapital Entertainment is written by Becky Hartman Edwards and inspired by Susan Savage, the real-life owner of the Triple-A world champion baseball team Sacramento River Cats. The Peanut Butter Falcon (streaming now on Crave) star Zack Gottsagen will co-star in the project with Huffman.
The half-hour series will centre on Huffman's character, who inherits her husband's minor league baseball team after his sudden, tragic death. She's forced to navigate her new normal with the help of the Sacramento community and her oldest son, (Gottsagen), a baseball devotee with Down syndrome.
Gottsagen starred alongside Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson in The Peanut Butter Falcon. LaBeouf plays an outlaw on the run who agrees to become Gottsagen's character's coach after escaping his assisted living home to pursue his dreams of becoming a pro wrestler and meeting his wrestling hero. Gottsagen also made history by becoming the first person to present at the Oscars with Down syndrome with his friend and co-star LaBeouf by his side.
This will mark Huffman's first TV role since completing her year's probation after she pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy for paying an admissions consultant $15,000 to have a proctor correct her daughter's SAT answers. The actress also served 11 days of her initial 14-day sentence. She was set to be released from the Federal Correctional Institution on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, but she was released on Friday, Oct. 25, as it's normal policy for inmates who are set to be released on weekends.
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A judge also ordered Huffman to pay a $30,000 fine and complete 250 hours of community service. She was the first parent to be sentenced in the college admissions scandal after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. She tearfully apologized at her sentencing, saying, “I was frightened. I was stupid, and I was so wrong.”
“I am deeply sorry to the students, parents, colleges, and universities who have been impacted by my actions,” Huffman said. “I am sorry to my daughter Sophia, my daughter Georgia, and I am sorry to my husband, Bill. I have betrayed them all.” She paid $15,000 to boost her older daughter's SAT scores, which is relatively low compared with other alleged bribes in the case, named Operation Varsity Blues by the FBI.
Full House actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli were also sentenced in the case. Loughlin surrendered herself to prison in California at the end of October to begin her two-month sentence for her scandal involvement. Besides prison time, she must also conduct 100 hours of community service, pay a fine of $150,000 and undergo two years of supervised release.
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