Oscar and Emmy nominee Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick, The Twilight Zone, Little America) is set to portray Somen “Steve” Banerjee, the Indian-American entrepreneur who founded Chippendales, in an eight-episode limited series at Hulu, according to Variety.
The series will be written by Robert Siegel, who is also penning Hulu’s Pam & Tommy starring Lily James as Pamela Anderson and Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee.
Nanjiani is also set to star in Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series which sees the return of Ewan McGregor as the titular character.
Executive producers for Immigrant include Nanjiani, Dylan Sellers, Emily V. Gordon, Rajiv Joseph, and Mehar Sethi, who will also write for the series which is produced by 20th Television.