This Fool Has been Renewed for a Second Season
It made big news when it premiered in August and is coming back with more of the irreverent comedy that audiences loved. This Fool, the Hulu Original comedy series, produced by ABC Signature has been renewed for ten more episodes of creator and star Chris Estrada’s comedy series.
Season one of This Fool premiered this year on August 12 streaming on Hulu with 10 episodes. You can still watch it if you have not seen it and want to get up to speed for season two. The series is written and executive produced by Chris Estrada, Pat Bishop (Corporate), Jake Weisman (Corporate) and Matt Ingebretson (Corporate). Jonathan Groff (Black-ish) and Fred Armisen (Los Espookys) also serve as executive producers on the series.
This Fool is a half-hour comedy about a working class ordinary (very ordinary) “Joe”. Julio Lopez is a 30 year-old man who still lives at home, a prim and proper, self-righteous man with an on-and-off girlfriend who, the worse she treats him the more he pursues her. She is his high school sweetheart…who is not very sweet to him. Julio works at a non-profit gang rehabilitation where he takes his cousin, recently released from jail, in hopes of rehabilitating him. Which is easier said than done.
At Hugs Not Thugs, the non-profit works for, Julio takes his job of reforming his ex-gang member cousin seriously, but it proves to be harder than he imagined.
The supporting cast is stellar. In addition to Estrada who plays the lead, Frankie Quiñones who plays Julio’s cousin, Laura Patalano plays his mom Esperanza; Michelle Ortiz plays his girlfriend Maggie, veteran actress Julia Vera plays Maria his grandmother and Michael Imerioli plays Minister Payne.
This cast of characters quickly endeared themselves to a ready audience who have been waiting for season two!
Chris Estrada is repped by United Talent Agency
Cowboys Movies Back in The Saddle Again
Not sure how much Kevin Costner’s western series Yellowstone has had a hand in raising the profile of the western genre, but Indie filmmaker Mario Van Peebles (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) just wrapped production on a new western called Outlaws which he directed and stars in. His cast includes Whoopie Goldberg (Till), Cedric the Entertainer (The Neighborhood) and Edward James Olmos (Mayans M.C.)
Van Peebles plays a renegade cowboy who assembles a team of multicultural friends to help him retrieve gold from an abandoned mine. It sounds like the feature Oceans 11, western style! We are glad they included Olmos as one of the main characters because how can you make a movie about cowboys without them, when Mexicans invented the iconic cowboy genre. Words like Buckaroo is an Anglicized form of the word in Spanish “vaquero” and “la reata” became lariat.
Westerns are making a comeback and stories of Mexican “Vaqueros” are currently in development. More on that in next week’s Hollywood Talks!
Edward James Olmos is repped by Ben Dey of Creative Artists Agency
Get Ready for Anna Garcia
You may not know Anna Garcia (Hacks) but soon you will. She is a graduated of the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Film and moved to L.A. in 2017.. She was a stand out in the 2022 CBS Comedy Showcase and after making appearances on TV shows like Hacks, Superstore and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, she is now ready for her film close up.
Garcia landed a much sought-after role in what will be her feature film debut in Project Artemis where she will work alongside Jim Rash (Harely Quinn), Ray Romano (Parenthood), Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: End Game) and Channing Tatum (The Lost City).
The film, whose plot line is listed on IMDB as “under wraps” is rumoured to be a 1960s space race film. It is being directed by Greg Berlanti for Apple Studios and produced by Johansson, Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn of These Pictures. Rose Gilroy and Sarah Schechter wrote the script.
Anna is repped by Valerie Champeau at Paradigm Talent Agency