There is work out there! And here are some casting news that will put a simile on your face…unless you auditioned for the role and didn’t get it.
Salma Hayek to Star in Indie Beatriz at Dinner Directed by Miguel Arteta
Salma Hayek takes the lead in Mike White’s latest indie film Beatriz at Dinner, which will be directed by Miguel Arteta (Cedar Rapids, The Good Girl). Hayek will be playing the title role of a holistic medicine practitioner who finds herself a fish out of water when her car breaks down at a wealthy client’s house and she joins a celebratory dinner party. Also cast are Enrique Castillo (Weeds, Blood In Blood Out) as Marco, Chloe Sevigny, John Lithgow, and Connie Britton.
Enrique Castillo
Producing will be Bron Studios’ Aaron L. Gilbert and Killer Films chief Christine Vachon along with Pam Koffler and David Hinojosa. Jason Cloth of Creative Wealth Media Finance and Lewis Hendler are executive producing.
Salma Hayek is repped by CAA. Enrique Castillo is repped by BRS/Gage Talent
Edy Ganem Stars in The Legal Drama Created Equal
Edy Ganem, who make her mark as the daughter of acerbic Devious Maid Zoila Diaz (Judy Reyes) and made her exit out of the TV series in 2015, has been busy since leaving. She starred alongside Luis Guzman in Ana Maria in Novela Land, then went off to have her baby. But she is back with a fury. She has four films in varying stages of production and it was recently announced that she will be starring in the legal drama Created Equal starring alongside Aaron Tveit (Les Misérables) with Bill Duke (Dark Girls, Hoodlums, Sister Act 2) directing.
Ganem stars in the lead role of Alejandra Batista, a young woman desperate to become a priest in the Catholic Church. She turns to Thomas O’Reilly, a successful lawyer who files suit against the Archdiocese of New Orleans for sex discrimination without justifiable cause.
The film is being shot in New Orleans and also stars Lou Diamond Phillips (Longmire) and Greg Alan Williams (Greenleaf).
Screenplay by Richard Kletter, Michael Ricigliano, Theta Catalon and Joyce Lewis, based on the novel by Roger A. Brown who is also executive producing. Production duties go to Theta Catalon of T-Cat Films and Karlas Powell.
Ganem is repped by Pardigm.
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