Clarke & Brolin Join 'A Roadmap To Happiness' Docuseries — SkimNews
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- Emilia Clarke and Josh Brolin are joining docuseries "A Roadmap To Happiness," adding to a previously announced cast of Jason Momoa, Shailene Woodley, Elijah Wood, and Alec Baldwin.
- Clarke will film in Portugal, cited by producers as a place with some of the happiest children in the world, while Brolin will appear in Finland — a country consistently ranked among the world's happiest — for the series finale.
- Host Darin Olien, known from Netflix's "Down to Earth with Zac Efron," travels with actors across the globe to find the happiest people on Earth and explore what constitutes happiness across cultures.
- The series is directed and produced by Cary Floyd, alongside producers Olien, Heather White Rezner, and DP Nick Higgins.
- A limited VOD release is set for March 20, 2027, timed to World Happiness Day, with conversations continuing with platforms and broadcasters for additional distribution.
- Cast quotes frame the project as reflective rather than performative: Brolin said "connection, simplicity, and presence may be the most powerful things we have"; Olien called happiness "the missing piece" linking sustainability and human challenges; Momoa said people and the planet are "at the heart of everything I do."
Why it matters: The show's producers are explicitly tethering a celebrity-driven docuseries to the United Nations-recognized World Happiness Day on 3/20/2027, a marketing hook that frames the project around a global observance rather than a celebrity vanity play. Pairing each actor with a country already ranked among the world's happiest (Portugal, Finland) gives the series an editorial conceit — Olien as the connective host, not the stars — that distinguishes it from typical A-list travel fare.
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