Noah Centineo plays an unorthodox young C.I.A. lawyer in this spy heist.

Although a high-stakes international spy mission may not be where you expect to see affable rom-com darling Noah Centineo, he brings the same undeniable charm to his latest project, The Recruit. In fact, for the first-time executive producer and star, the role of Owen Hendricks, a young lawyer who has just started work at the C.I.A., couldn’t have felt like a better fit: “I read the pilot and my initial reaction was, How did this person write me into a script without my permission? And I called my team and I said, Who gave this guy permission to put me into a TV show?”

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