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‘Role Play’ Review: Kaley Cuoco Plays a Suburban Mom Moonlighting as a Global Assassin in Amazon’s Diverting Lark

Kaley Cuoco is hiding a big secret from husband David Oyelowo in Prime Video's 'Role Play,' a genial if familiar mix of comedy and action.

This smaller-scaled, gender-flipped spin on the “True Lies” conceit, however, gets most of its charm and humor from David Oyelowo, playing the Jamie Lee Curtis role of the solidly middlebrow spouse flummoxed at finding themselves married to a lethal weapon. Just in time for chicken dinner on the grill, Emma Brackett (Cuoco) returns to her middle-class New Jersey home, shared with adoring Dave (Oyelowo), plus their kids, Caroline (Lucia Aliu) and Wyatt (Regan Bryan-Gudgeon). To make up for that oversight, she proposes a Manhattan date night, additionally spiced by the couple role-playing as “two strangers meeting in a bar.” But while Dave gets held up in traffic, she’s approached in the chosen hotel watering hole by a flirtatious windy bore (Bill Nighy).

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