Corbett's lucky break

Former Sex In The City star John Corbett did not have to go far to research his role as a gambling addict in Lucky, a television series about a professional Las Vegas gambler.

Corbett, who chose to take the role in Lucky over an offer to return as the husband to be in the television series based on the hit film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, merely talked to Lucky’s creators, Mark and Robb Cullen.

“That was more than enough,” he said in an interview.

“They are like a couple of goofs. They don’t take themselves seriously at all.”

“Our uncle was a professional gambler,” said Mark Cullen, who, with his brother is the executive producer and writer of the dark comedy series.

“Our cousin runs a riverboat casino on the Mississippi, my brother is a professional

gambler and through my father we spent a lot of time in Las Vegas.”

His brother, he said, once lost £400,000 (€578,000) playing blackjack one afternoon while trying to raise £750,000 (€1,084,213) to make a film.

Corbett plays Lucky Linkletter, a likeable gambler who won the million dollar grand prize in the World Championship of Poker only to find himself a year later financially and emotionally bankrupt and trying to get back on his feet.