‘The Company You Keep’ Drama Pilot at ABC Rounds Out Cast

variety.com:

Selome Hailu ABC announced that Sarah Wayne Callies, James Saito, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen and Felisha Terrell have been cast in the drama pilot “The Company You Keep.”Based on the Korean format “My Fellow Citizens,” the pilot follows con-man Charlie (Milo Ventimiglia) after a night of passion leads to love between him and undercover CIA officer Emma (Catherine Haena Kim).

The two are unknowingly on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the “family business” so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts in-hand – forcing them to reckon with the lies they’ve told so they can save themselves and their families from disastrous consequences.

Callies (“Prison Break,” “The Walking Dead”) plays Birdie, Charlie’s bossy big-sister and co-owner of the bar they run together, which also serves as a front to their illegitimate family business.

A commitment-phobe with her own relationship baggage, Birdie is a single mother to a hearing-impaired daughter. An expert in all things technical, Birdie is an integral member of her family of grifters and will stop at nothing to keep them safe, even if it puts her at odds with Charlie.Callies is represented by The Gersh Agency, More Medavoy Management, and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern, LLP.Saito (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Life of Pi”) plays Joseph aka Joe, a former governor and the patriarch of a political dynasty considered to be the Asian American Kennedys.