Jack Black as Alex Talbot, a lowly Foreign Service Officer assigned to the Embassy of the United States, Islamabad[1] Tim Robbins as United States Secretary of State Walter Larson[1] Pablo Schreiber as Lieutenant Commander Zeke "Z-Pak" Tilson, a drug-dealing United States Naval Aviator[1][5] on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Ulysses S. Grant[6] Aasif Mandvi as Rafiq Massoud, a Pakistani employed by the U.S. Embassy. Mandvi will also be co-producing and writing for the series.[7][8] Maribeth Monroe as Kendra Peterson,[1] Walter's assistant Eric Ladin as Lieutenant Glenn "Jammer" Taylor, Zeke's backseater Geoff Pierson as United States Secretary of Defense Pierce Gray Esai Morales as President of the United States Julian Navarro[9]