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J.K. Simmons lands major role in new MGM+ crime series

J.K. Simmons lands role in new MGM+ series The Westies

J.K. Simmons is to star in new MGM+ series 'The Westies'.

The 70-year-old actor will lead the crime drama - co-created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes - which is set in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center on the Westies’ home turf in Hell’s Kitchen provides the Irish-American organised crime gang with a financial windfall.

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