Frank Langella fired from The Fall of the House of Usher at Netflix

Frank Langella has been fired from Mike Flanagan’s upcoming Netflix project The Fall of the House of Usher. According to a Deadline exclusive, Langella was the subject of an investigation into alleged misconduct.

Earlier this week, TMZ reported that the Oscar-nominated actor was under investigation for alleged sexual harassment with multiple accusations of inappropriate conduct on the set of the eight-episode limited series. Sources claim Langella made sexual comments and had touched a female co-star before asking her something like, “Did you like that?”

Deadline says the investigation has concluded and determined that Langella had been involved in unacceptable conduct. Langella was set to play Roderick Usher in the series, which will adapt the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Roderick is the family patriarch.

Frank Langella’s role in The Fall of the House of Usher is being recast

Per the outlet, The Fall of the House of Usher is almost halfway through production, so Langella’s scenes will be reshot with whatever actor they recast. For now, filming will continue, focusing on scenes that do not involve Roderick until a new actor is cast. The 84-year-old actor wasn’t scheduled to film this week, likely due to the investigation. It doesn’t sound like the production has taken a hiatus or anything apart from some reshuffling prepared to accommodate the new actor and reshoots.

Neither Netflix nor Langella’s reps have commented on the news yet.

Besides Langella, the series also stars Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly and Mark Hamill. Flanagan’s latest series is described as an “epic tale of greed, horror and tragedy.” It is one of several Flanagan projects in the works, as the filmmaker also has The Midnight Club in the works at Netflix and previously helmed the successful horror anthology series The Haunting.

This is the second person to be let go from a Netflix project this week, as earlier a production designer working on Bridgerton prequel series Queen Charlotte split with Netflix over alleged bullying.