New Delhi, June 14 -- Juliette Lewis is back in Cape Fear, although the form her return takes is the deliberate inverse of the one most viewers were expecting. The actress cameos in the Apple TV+ episode "Phantom Sensations" as a cloaked, unnamed figure who has been harassing Max Cady, a casting choice Nick Antosca told Deadline he had been chasing since the reboot's writers' room opened.

Lewis's last work in the Cape Fear universe was her breakout role as Danielle Bowden, the teenage daughter Robert De Niro's Max Cady targeted, in Martin Scorsese's 1991 theatrical remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 original. That performance, all coiled-spring posture and pre-Natural Born Killers tension, drew her first Oscar nomination at 18 and became o...