Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Casting News - Yul Vazquez Joins 'Hotel Cocaine'; 'Wonder Man' Casts Demetrius Grosse'; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - March 29, 2023

AppleTV+'s Sinking Spring; Disney+'s Wonder Man; Hulu's Only Murders in the Building; MGM+'s Hotel Cocaine; and Peacock's Apples Never Fall.





HULU's ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
  • Don Darryl Rivera, Allison Guinn and Gerald Caesar have landed recurring roles on the comedy's upcoming third season. Rivera previously recurred on Showtime's Let the Right One In. Guinn recurred on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer. Caesar starred in the 2021 film Dear Evan Hansen.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
MGM+'s HOTEL COCAINE
  • Yul Vazquez has joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Danny Pino and Michael Chiklis. He previously starred in the HBO limited series The Outsider. He also recurred on AppleTV+'s Severance, Netflix's Russian Doll, Hulu's The Looming Tower and Netflix's Narcos: Mexico.
  • He will play Nestor Cabal, Roman Compte's (Pino) brother and one of the biggest suppliers of cocaine to a coke-hungry Miami population. He's dangerous, funny, wily and seeking reunion with his long-lost brother.
DISNEY+'s WONDER MAN
  • Demetrius Grosse has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming drama starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. He previously recurred on ABC's The Rookie, AppleTV+'s Swagger and AMC's Fear the Walking Dead
  • He will play Eric Williams, Simon's (Abdul-Mateen II) brother.
PEACOCK's APPLES NEVER FALL
  • Jeanine Serralles and Dylan Thuraisingham are set as series regulars on the upcoming limited series starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill. Serralles previously starred in Amazon's one-season drama Utopia. Thuraisingham guest starred on NBC's Young Rock and Peacock's One of Us Is Lying.
  • Serralles will play Detective Elena Camacho. When Joy Delaney (Bening) goes missing, Detective Elena Camacho runs lead on the case. But she quickly grows frustrated - and suspicious - when Joy's own family creates roadblocks in her investigation. Her pursuit of answers takes her deeper into her own struggles to balance the demands of motherhood and her job.
  • Thuraisingham will play Detective Ethan Remy, a devoted partner to his mentor, Detective Elena Camacho. They may disagree on what exactly happened to Joy Delaney, but they both know that no one's telling them the truth.
APPLE TV+'s SINKING SPRING
  • Kieu Chinh has booked a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura. She previously starred in the 1993 film The Joy Luck Club. She will next be seen in HBO's upcoming drama The Sympathizer.
  • She will play a crime family matriarch.