‘Tiger King’ series casts Dennis Quaid as Rick Kirkham
Tiger King series on Peacock has cast Dennis Quaid as Rick Kirkham.Joe Exotic (working title) will see Quaid playing Exotic’s reality show producer Kirkham, opposite John Cameron Mitchell as Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel himself.The new show will also star Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin, Brian Van Holt as John Reinke, Nat Wolff as one of Joe’s husbands Travis Maldonado, and Sam Keely who will play John Finlay.Joe Exotic will be based on the Wondery podcast, and, per Deadline, follows “big cat enthusiast Carole Baskin, as she learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit.“She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry.