‘Empire’ Actress Joins John Asher Drama ‘Po’

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“Empire’s” Kaitlin Doubleday is set to co-star in the John Asher autism drama “Po.”

Christopher Gorham also stars in pic that follows a recently widowed man who must learn to cope with becoming a single father to his nine-year-old autistic son.

Rod Hamilton is producing along with Asher.

The original script was penned by Colin Goldman from a story that Goldman and Steve C. Roberts developed.

Doubleday broke out this past season as Rhonda Lyon, the wife to Lucious Lyon’s eldest son on the Fox drama.

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