david tennant’s love interest cast!

five seasons from now, you might get to kiss david tennant. // getty images

The love interest for David Tennant’s American series has been cast; Sophia will be played by actress Lindsey Kraft, an actress so undiscovered, she doesn’t even have a bio on IMDb.  She’s been in some things, but nothing even as mainstream as a playing a victim on Law & Order.  I’ve been waiting for weeks to find out who would be playing Sophia, and I’m neither surprised nor disappointed that they’ve chosen an obscure young actress for the part.  With a loudmouth cast including David Tennant, Jeffrey Tambor, Jane Curtin, and now Jerry O’Connell, this pilot didn’t need more recognizable names.

It’s also become pretty standard lately to cast established actors against fresh-faced actresses.  Just look at Castle‘s Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, Bones‘s David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, Lost‘s Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly, Fringe‘s Joshua Jackson and Anna Torv, Grey’s Anatomy‘s Patrick Dempsey and Ellen Pompeo, and so on and so forth.

Literally the only thing I can say about her–I can’t judge her talent or her chemistry with David or anything–is that she looks quite young.  But then again, that’s pretty standard these days, too.

But she’s also adorable and I’m growing more and more excited for this pilot–I’m notoriously bad at this sort of thing, but it’s been getting enough press than unless the pilot blows hard, it looks like a good pick for a pick-up.

Meanwhile, a funny story.  The article in which this info was reported was titled, “Jerry O’Connell to co-star in NBC pilot.”  I was immediately terrified that this meant he’d been cast as the lead in J.J. Abrams’s Undercovers, the spy dramedy which shouldn’t touch Jerry O’Connell with a ten-foot pole.  Clicking in, though, I realized he’d replaced the dude from Heroes, Sendhil Ramamurthy, who backed out at the last minute due to scheduling conflicts.

It was a good scare, though.