Three More Actors Join Disney+'s Spaceship Earth Pilot
Three more actors have joined the pilot of Disney+'s Spaceship Earth, Deadline reported on 21 October 2026. Maeve Touhey, Ta'imua and Freddie O'Donahue have been signed for the remaining series regular roles. A series regular is an actor booked to appear across the whole show, not just in one episode.
They join Catherine Laga'aia and Deacon Phillippe, who were already announced as the leads. Those casting reports came out on 12 October.
A pilot is a test episode, shot before a streamer decides whether to order a full series. This one is written by Jason Fuchs and Michael Waldron and produced by 20th Television. Fuchs is also the showrunner, the lead writer who runs the creative work day to day, and an executive producer through Five Ten Productions. Waldron, Adam Fishbach and Adam Fasullo share the executive producer credit, and Lee Toland Krieger is directing the pilot.
The show is inspired by the Spaceship Earth attraction at Walt Disney World's EPCOT park in Florida. The story follows a mission to stop a global cataclysm, and it brings together teenagers from Earth's past and future to make that happen.
Touhey is making her acting debut in the pilot. Ta'imua most recently starred in the 2026 Oscar-nominated short Jane Austen's Period Drama. Earlier credits include Apple's Truth Be Told and ABC's Doctor Odyssey.
O'Donahue has a busy autumn ahead. He will star alongside Kate Burton and Michael Gaston in A Great Depression. He also has the lead role in the thriller Bullies Anonymous, opposite Robyn Lively and Bill Sage.
The new actors' characters are being kept under wraps, so the roles are known only by casting for now. Writers and producers will have to turn those roles into people on the page. The pilot still has to be picked up before it becomes a series, and no series order has been announced.
For the crew, that stage is where the work is most intense. Casting is done, and the next step is the shoot. Whether it leads to a full run of episodes is the question that decides how long that work lasts.
