Hawaii Five-0: Louis Gossett Jr. Is Lou's Dad In Episode Written By Chi McBride

The Hawaii Five-0 team is having an Academy Award winner over for Thanksgiving dinner.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Louis Gossett Jr. is set to guest-star in a Season 9 episode that is set around the November holiday, playing the father of Chi McBride's Lou Grover.

A new member of the Writers Guild, McBride in fact wrote the Thanksgiving-themed episode, as first reported by TVLine.

"That's a big deal for us," showrunner Peter M. Lenkov affirmed. "Chi called me up and said, 'I have this thing...,' and I said, 'Write it!' We met a couple of times and he turned in a great script."

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Gossett Jr.'s recent TV credits include Hap and Leonard, Extant and episodes of The Good Fight and Madam Secretary. In addition to the Oscar he won for An Officer and a Gentleman, his mantle also boasts a pair of Golden Globes (including one for the TV-movie The Josephine Baker Story) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for the 1977 Roots miniseries).

He also will have a role in Damon Lindelof's recently greenlit Watchmen series for HBO, where he is speculated to be playing Old Man.

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