'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' Brings Aboard ‘Yellowstone’s Mo Brings Plenty And 3 Others

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Yellowstone's Mo Brings Plenty already has a new gig lined up, and he's sticking with Taylor Sheridan. He, Dale Dickey, Margot Bingham, and Tosin Morohunfola have been cast in recurring roles in the Bass Reeves-focused first season of Taylor Sheridan's upcoming Paramount+ anthology series Lawmen.

Mo Brings Plenty will play Minco Dodge, Reeves' Choctaw Native American friend. Brings Plenty himself is an enrolled tribal member of the Lakota Nation from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In addition to recurring as Mo on Yellowstone, he's known for playing Ottawa Jones in Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird. He has also portrayed “Crazy Horse”, “Sitting Bull”, and many other historical Indian warriors for reenactments in docuseries like Deadliest Warrior. He also serves as American Indian Affairs Coordinator on Yellowstone and its spinoffs 1883 and 1923, where he ensures the authenticity and accuracy of all American Indian depictions storylines, set design, hair, make-up, and costumes. 

Dickey will play Widow Dolliver, an experienced old woman who doesn't have the patience for bullshit. Her credits include Film Independent Spirit Award-winning turn in Winter’s Bone for supporting actress and a nomination for lead performance in A Love Song, which also got her a Gotham Award nomination. On television, she's recurred on A League Of Their Own, Them, Unbelievable, Claws and Vice Principals. She has also been cast in Prime Video's Fallout series.

Bingham will play Sara Jumper, a black Seminole Native American to whom Bass will owe a debt of gratitude. She was most recently a series regular for the final season of The Walking Dead and appeared in Spike Lee’s Netflix series adaptation of She’s Gotta Have It, New Amsterdam, and Boardwalk Empire. She is set to appear in the Peacock limited series Leopard Skin with Carla Gugino. Film credits include Barbershop: The Next Cut, the independent Saturday Church and Anything, and Voltage’s Then Came You.

Morohunfola will play Jackson “Jackrabbit” Cole, an imprisoned Union veteran that rides along with Reeves. The actor is known for his starring as Ola in Starz’s Run The World. He will soon be seen in the second season of Max’s Julia, coming this year. Other TV credits include Black Lightning and Love Is. His next film roles include the heist film 1992 with Ray Liotta and Tyrese Gibson and the comedy Russ & Dru alongside Meagan Good and Terrence J.

David Oyelowo stars in this first season as Bass Reeves and will still presumably executive produce the series even after it shifts focus to another lawman. Bass Reeves was a real person who, as the logline describes, worked in the post-Reconstruction era as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory. He is said to have captured more than 3,000 of the most dangerous criminals without ever being wounded, and for it, he is considered the greatest frontier hero in American history.

Other series regulars include Barry Pepper, Lauren E. Banks, Forrest Goodluck, and Demi Singleton. Donald Sutherland, Dennis Quaid, Joaquina Kalukango, Ryan O’Nan, Justin Hurtt-Dunkley, Rob Morgan, Lonnie Chavis, and Grantham Coleman will recur alongside this quartet. Shea Whigham and Garrett Hedlund are set to guest star, but it's unknown if they're still recurring guest stars.

Currently filming in Texas, Lawmen: Bass Reeves is created, executive produced, and showrun by Chad Feehan. Oyelowo executive produces with his wife Jessica under their Yoruba Saxon banner, while Sheridan does so through Bosque Ranch Productions. David C. Glasser, David Permut, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, and David Hutkin also executive produce, as does Christina Voros, who will also direct five episodes. The series is also produced by MTV Entertainment Studios.

Source: Deadline