The eagerly awaited Heartstrings, an anthology of stories based on the music of the queen of country music herself Dolly Parton, is almost here. Each instalment of the eight-episode series will be named after one of the singer’s songs and fans cannot wait for it to be dropped on Netflix. Here’s everything we know about the show’s cast.
Who is in the cast of Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings?
Jolene – Julianne Hough
One of Dolly’s most famous and beloved hits has got to be Jolene so there is bound to be a lot of interest who will be playing the temptress.
Actress Julianne Hough will be starring in Jolene, the fourth episode in the mini-series, as the woman herself.
Hough is probably best known as one of the four judges on Dancing With the Stars.
She also became a judge on America’s Got Talent earlier this year.
In terms of her performance experience, she has starred in shows such as Burlesque, Footloose, Rock of Ages and Grease Live!
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Miss Mary Shaw – Kathleen Turner
Academy Award-nominated actress Kathleen Turner will be in the first episode of Heartstrings called These Old Bones.
The song is taken from Dolly’s 2002 album Halos & Horns and is based on a true story where the young singer visited an old woman, rumoured to be a witch, and told her she was “anointed” – turner will play this woman.
The actress recently appeared in other Netflix series The Kominsky Method starring Michael Douglas.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times about the country singer, she said: “I have such admiration for this woman and what she’s made of her life.”
Harper Cantrell – Patricia Wettig
Wettig will be taking on a leading role in episode six, Sugar Hill.
Her best-known role was Nancy Weston in the television series Thirtysomething, for which she received a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
The song is about an older woman reminiscing about days gone by where she and her partner went swimming in a millpond together.
The episode will see a married couple in their twilight embarks on a road trip back to the place where they first fell in love.
Timothy Busfield (The West Wing) will be playing her husband while Virginia Gardner (Marvel’s Runaways) and Tom Brittney (Outlander) will be playing their younger selves.