Hudson Williams Bags Two Thrillers, Omar Apollo Signs On, And Robbie Gk Takes Over The Weekend
Hudson Williams has been confirmed for Amazon MGM’s new culinary thriller Tyrant, his on-screen castmate Robbie GK dropped two campaigns inside 48 hours, and queer singer-turned-actor Omar Apollo has slid into the mix as one of Williams’ new co-stars.
The Tyrant lineup
Deadline confirmed the Tyrant cast on 28 April 2026, as reported by Queerty. Williams and Apollo join Charlize Theron, Demi Moore, Julia Garner, Paapa Essiedu (the upcoming Severus Snape in the new HBO Harry Potter series, and Kwame in I May Destroy You), and lifestyle creator Nara Smith. The film is described as a “high-stakes thriller in the vein of Wall Street and Whiplash set within New York City’s elite fine dining scene.” David Weil writes and directs from a story he co-conceived with Cody Behan.
For Apollo, Tyrant is his first acting role since Queer, the 2024 Luca Guadagnino film opposite Daniel Craig.
Hudson Williams’ running list
Tyrant is one of several projects Williams is now juggling. He stars opposite Dylan O’Brien in Apparatus, a comedy thriller from Canadian director Sofia Banzhaf in which Williams plays a struggling rideshare driver who meets a charismatic entrepreneur. He returns to Crave for Yaga, a TV series based on the Slavic folklore figure Baba Yaga. He also features in Netflix’s Sam Bankman-Fried project The Altruists, playing crypto trader Duncan Rheingans-Yoo. Heated Rivalry season two starts filming later this year, with a premiere pencilled for next spring.
Robbie GK’s two-shoot weekend
While Williams was stacking scripts, Robbie GK (formerly Robbie Graham-Kuntz) used the same weekend to drop two very different campaigns. The first was a cowboy-coded Panera Fresca activation at Ray’s Aloha Cowboy Backyard BBQ during Stagecoach Weekend in California. Sleeveless tee, denim, hat, sandwich in one hand and a red Fresca in the other. The second was a fashion editorial for Esquire Singapore shot by Henry Wu, styled by Hannah Kerri, with grooming by Ayae Yamamoto. Trench coat, unbuttoned shirt, hair cooperatively undone.
GK got his start in musical theatre, debuting at 13 in The Sound of Music before Heated Rivalry‘s Kip Grady made him an international name.
