Lana Parrilla and Veronica Falcon Joins Cast of CBS’ Why Women Kill
Lana Parrilla, B.K. Cannon, Jordane Christie, Matthew Daddario and Veronica Falcón have joined the cast of CBS All Access’ dark comedy Why Women Kill created by Marc Cherry (Devious Maids, Desperate Housewives). Set in multiple time periods, the series depicts the events leading to a death that occurs after the respective husbands of three married women commit adultery.The new cast members will appear alongside Allison Tolman and Nick Frost in the sophomore installment of the dark comedy series.
As previously announced, Tolman and Frost will play Alma and Bertram, a seemingly ordinary couple with mundane ambitions whose marriage is threatened when Alma finds out Bertram has been keeping a secret hobby.
Parrilla (The Tax Collector, Once Upon A Time) will portray Rita, the sardonic wife to the wealthy and evil Carlo Castillo. Rita rules over the garden club that Alma desperately wants to join, and is engaged in an affair with a younger lover while she waits for her elderly husband to die.
Falcón (Perry Mason, Queen of the South) will portray Catherine, Carlo Castillo’s spinster daughter. Prim and proper, Catherine detests Rita, and returns to town after a mysterious accident, searching for a way to destroy her.
Cannon (Switched at Birth, Sin City Saints) will play Dee, Alma’s wry and brassy daughter who works as a waitress in a local diner. Though self-deprecating, Dee can be vulnerable under her emotional armor and is both excited and humiliated by her illicit affair with a secret lover.
Christie (The Haunting of Hill House, Atlanta) will appear as Vern, a tough and rugged private detective, who Rita hires to investigate Scooter when she begins to suspect he’s cheating on her.
The new season of Why Women Kill is set to release in 2021. For now, catch up on Season 1 of Why Women Kill on CBS All Access.
Camila Mendes is set to star in Netflix’s upcoming Strangers
Riverdale star Camila Mendes and Stranger Things actress Maya Hawke will together star in a dark comedy for Netflix called Strangers that resembles the Alfred Hitchcock classic Strangers on a Train.
Strangers is directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Someone Great) based on a screenplay she wrote with Celeste Ballard, and the film’s premise follows two strangers plot to murder someone the other person wants gone. Strangers subverts that idea of Drew, the trendy It Girl and Eleanor, an alternative girl, who team up to go after each other’s bullies.
Robinson is producing the feature film with Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron for Likely Story under their overall deal with Netflix. Mendes can also be seen in Hulu’s Palm Springs and Netflix’s The Perfect Date.
Anthony Ramos Joins HBO’s In Treatment Cast
Anthony Ramos (Hamilton) has been cast in a recurring role in the upcoming fourth season of HBO’s Emmy-winning drama series In Treatment. opposite Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black)
In Treatment, which ended a three-season run in 2010, is returning for a fourth season as a reimagined half-hour series. The series is in pre-production under COVID-19 guidelines, with a 2021 debut planned to air on HBO and stream on HBO Max.
The return of the series brings a diverse trio of patients in session with an observant, empathetic therapist, played by Aduba, who is wrestling with her own issues.
Ramos will play Eladio, a patient who works as a home health aide for a wealthy family’s adult son. Additional cast has yet to be announced.
Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg, Hagai Levi, Jennifer Schuur, Joshua Allen and Melissa Bernstein will serve as exec producers of the new season, with Joanne Toll and Noa Tishby co-executive producers.
Ramos first made his mark in the Tony and Grammy award-winning Broadway smash Hamilton, which is now streaming on Disney+. He can currently be seen in the feature Honest Thief opposite Liam Neeson. He will also star in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s anticipated feature, In The Heights, directed by Jon M. Chu, set to premiere in summer 2021. Ramos is repped by CAA, Door 24, Modest! and Paul Hastings.
–ANA PEREZ
