It’s too early to make any final judgments, but it’s good to see some Latinos already lined up for next fall’s possibilities.
Johnny Ortiz
Richard Cabral
Richard Cabral, Johnny Ortiz, and Elvis Nolasco (most recently in the Oldboy remake) are part of John Ridley’s American Crime for ABC. The project centers, they tell us, on “the home invasion and murder of a young war veteran and his beauty queen wife in Modesto, CA.” Cabral will play Hector Tonz, a hustler and occasional drug dealer who is implicated in the murder and attack of the young couple; Ortiz will play Tony Gutierrez, Alonzo’s son who is eager for independence and sick of his dad’s rules. How great to see both of them playing complex and ‘real’ Latinos.
Elvis Nolasco
Kevin Alejandro
Kevin Alejandro moves from being the bad guy on Arrow to another superpowerful project: Clementine, where he is either casing or being chased by folks with supernatural powers.
Natalie Martinez is currently slated to be in the second season of Under the Dome, but that may change–or she may check out early, so to speak–if Secrets and Lies is picked up. The new show is based on an upcoming Australian series about a patriarch (Ryan Phillippe) who becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a young boy when he finds the body.
Morena Baccarin
Natalie Martinez
Morena Baccarin may have been kicked to the curb by Homeland (and who the heck knows why?) but, as usual, she wasn’t unemployed for long. She’s slated to be a centerpiece in Warriors, a medical drama based in a fictional version of Walter Reed.
Zabryna Guevara is part of the growing ensemble in Gotham the CW’s Bat-version of Smallville, tracing the teen-and early-twenty development of key Batman characters like Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon, the Penguin, the Riddler, and more.
Carlos Valdes
Rosa Salazar
And meanwhile Carlos Valdes is joining the cast of The Flash, the superhero spin-off out of Arrow.
Rosa Salazar will be part of The Pro, a new soap set in and around a tennis and golf club starring Rob Lowe (for this he left Parks and Recreation?).
Rita Moreno
And the best news of all: Rita Moreno is slated to be part of Amy Poehler’s new project Old Soul, starring Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black) as a young woman who is “trying to find herself while working as the aide to a group of elderly people.”
And there are a zillion more in the works, where casts have not been announced or completed.
