Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Casting News - Adria Arjona to Star in 'Criminal'; Rome Flynn Books Recurring Role on 'Godfather of Harlem'

Casting News - May 28, 2024

Amazon's Criminal and MGM+'s Godfather of Harlem.






AMAZON's CRIMINAL
  • Adria Arjona will star opposite Richard Jenkins in the upcoming drama based on the graphic novel. She currently stars in Disney+'s Andor, which has completed production of its second season. Last year, she starred in the feature film Hit Man.
  • She will play Greta, a sharp-tongued top-level car thief and driver and the widowed mother of Angie. Ever since her husband died in a bank job gone bad, she has been battling with herself about how to escape the only life she's ever known - and the only place she's ever thrived. The problem is, she's good at this. She's looking for a big score, a lump of money she can use like a gun to shoot her and Angie out of this life and into another one.
MGM+'s GODFATHER OF HARLEM
  • Rome Flynn has booked a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fourth season. He previously starred for two seasons in ABC's How to Get Away With Murder and two seasons in Amazon's With Love. He has also recurred on ABC's Grey's Anatomy and NBC's Chicago Fire.
  • He will play Frank Lucas, a country boy from North Carolina who ventures to Harlem. After initial friction with gangster Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker), he eventually rises to become Bumpy's fierce defender and right-hand man.