Overview

• Tom Brittney has been cast as James ‘Jimmy’ Roarke, the rising Westies leader mentored by J. K. Simmons’s patriarch character.
• Production on the eight-episode series will start in Toronto in July 2025.
• The Westies was created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes to explore Hell’s Kitchen’s Irish mob during the early 1980s.
• J. K. Simmons portrays Eamon Sweeney, the old-school boss forging a shaky alliance with the Gambino Crime Family.
• Titus Welliver joins as Glenn Keenan, an NYPD officer torn between his neighborhood loyalties and law enforcement duties.