By Luis Reyes
Academy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro stars as Richard Matt one of two prisoners who escape from a Maximum security prison with the aid of a prison worker in Showtimes’s seven-part limited series, Escape at Dannemora, that also stars Patricia Arquette and Paul Dano.
Based on a contemporary 2015 true escape and manhunt that happened at a prison facility in Upstate New York, Del Toro is a prison Kingpin who together with another inmate Daniel Sweet (Dano) carry on an affair with Tilly (Arquette), a married prison worker who eventually aids in their escape. The drama unfolds against deep character exploration of the prison inmates convicted of murder, their survival in prison and desire to escape. It also centers on the life of Tilly and how she came to be seduced by these two men that led to her aiding their escape and the eventual manhunt.
Dannemora airs in seven-parts beginning on November 18th on Showtime. Del Toro‘s work in Dannemora completes a year where he also starred in the hit action thriller Sicario: Day Of The Soldado, a sequel to Sicario in which he originated the role of the mysterious operative Alejandro. Filming Dannemora, directed by Ben Stiller, took almost eight months of production.
Over his career Del Toro has played both real (Che, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) and fictional characters (Big Top Pee Wee, Star Wars: The Last Jedi). The Puerto Rican born actor won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role as the conflicted Mexican Police officer Javier Rodriquez in the critically acclaimed film Traffic (2000). He was also Oscar nominated again the following year in the Best Supporting actor category for his role in the film 21 Grams
Ryan Guzman stars with Sylvester Stallone and Matthew Modine in the police action thriller from Lionsgate, Backtrace which debuts in theaters and on VOD on December 14th.
In Backtrace, a criminal mastermind, portrayed by Modine, suffers a brain injury during a violent heist gone wrong. He finds himself a victim of amnesia and in a prison psyche ward where years later a fellow inmate, Lucas, played by Guzman and a ward doctor (Meadow Williams) help him to escape so as to recover his mind by way of a new drug and the stolen money. A local detective played by Stallone pursues them after they escape.
Ryan Guzman. CR: Michael Becker / FOX
Guzman is perhaps best known for his breakout role opposite Jennifer Lopez in The Boy Next Door. Guzman is currently a series regular on the Fox firehouse drama series 9-1-1 opposite Angela Bassett and will be starting opposite Edward James Olmos and Julie Carmen in the upcoming 9/11 feature film Windows on The World.
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