The Recruit Adds Teo Yoo for Season 2 on Netflix

Teo Yoo is joining Netflix’s action-thriller The Recruit for its second season.

Netflix announced the casting news on X (formerly Twitter), sharing that Yoo’s character is “a highly skilled South Korean NIS agent with a subversive sense of humor — willing to go to any lengths to protect those he cares about.”

Yoo joins Noah Centineo, who returns as Owen Hendricks, a fledgling lawyer at the CIA who becomes entangled with dangerous international politics when a former asset, Laura Haddock’s Max Meladze, threatens to expose her relationship with the agency if it doesn’t exonerate her of a serious crime.

TV Line reports that The Recruit Yoo will be a series regular and Season 2 will see Owen “pulled into a life-threatening espionage situation in South Korea, only to realize that the bigger threat just might be coming from inside the Agency.” The second season does not have a premiere date yet.

From creator, showrunner, and executive producer Alexi Hawley, The Recruit debuted its eight-episode first season on Friday, December 16, 2022, on Netflix. The streaming service renewed the drama for Season 2 nearly a month later. 

“I know I speak for our entire cast and executive team at eOne and Netflix when I say that we’re thrilled to be returning to The Recruit for a second season. I’m looking forward to seeing what [showrunner] Alexi Hawley has in store for us all,” Centineo told Netflix’s Tudum in January 2023.

“I’m thrilled to dive back into the fun, funny, action-packed world of The Recruit. Seeing how invested our audience became in the show’s adventurous take on the spy world has been incredibly rewarding, and I can’t wait to turn it all up to 11 in Season 2,” Hawley told Tudum. 

The Recruit Season 1 starred Centineo, Haddock, Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn, Fivel Stewart, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Kristian Bruun, Vondie Curtis Hall, Byron Mann, Angel Parker, and Kaylah Zander.

Noah Centineo, Doug Liman, Gene Klein and David Bartis on behalf of Hypnotic, Adam Ciralsky, and Charlie Ebersol executive produce the series. eOne produces.

The writers for Season 1 included Alexi Hawley, George Ghanem, Amelia Roper, Hadi Deeb, Niceole Levy, and Maya Goldsmith. The directors for the debut season were Doug Liman, Alex Kalymnios, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., and Julian Holmes.

The Recruit Season 1 was filmed in Los Angeles, California, United States; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Vienna, Austria.

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The Recruit Season 1 is streaming on Netflix.

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