Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Joins ‘iZombie’s’ Final Season
Audy Contreras
August 22, 2018
(Photo courtesy of: Twitter/imrosemciver
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rose McIver)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is stretching his acting muscles again with a role on the final season of iZombie.The NBA legend (and Hollywood Reporter columnist) will guest-star on The CW series in 2019. Series lead Rose McIver (listed at 5 feet 4 inches) opens in a new windowtweeted a picture of herself with the 7-foot-2 Abdul-Jabbar on Monday.Abdul-Jabbar will play Zed, one of just two Seattle City Council members who didn’t flee the city before the wall went up. Zed is a zombie, and his fellow council member is a human, thus creating a unique form of gridlock at city hall. With the wheels of government ground to a halt, Liv’s (McIver) friend Peyton (Aly Michalka) — the deceased mayor’s chief of staff — is left effectively in charge of running the city.
The iZombie role will be Abdul-Jabbar’s first acting work in a couple years; he most recently appeared on BET’s mockumentary series The Comedy Get Down in 2017, playing a version of himself. His best-known turn on screen is probably as co-pilot Roger Murdock in Airplane! in 1980.
iZombie will air its opens in a new windowfifth and final season on The CW in 2019. It will join network cohorts Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in closing out their runs in the upcoming season.
