Rosario Dawson to Star in the Anthology Film “Deepest, Darkest”

Rosario Dawson has a deepest, darkest secret…

The 45-year-old Puerto Rican and Cuban American actress and activist has joined the cast of Deepest, Darkest, an upcoming anthology film architected by Marc Bernardin and Tiffany Smith, who’s also part of the cast.

Rosario DawsonExecutive produced by Akela Cooper and David Dastmalchian, Deepest, Darkest has invited myriad television writing all-stars behind the lens to tell stories of horror, suspense, dark comedy, and edgy science fiction, each revolving around that most human of impulses: the keeping of secrets.

Directors of the segments include LaToya Morgan, Deric A. Hughes & Benjamin Raab, Ubah Mohamed, Lamont Magee, Sujata Day and Kevin Avery.

Others in the cast include Ernie Hudson, Raymond Lee, Phil LaMarr, Yetide Badaki and Caitlin Bassett, as well as writer-directors Avery and Day.

Stated Dawson on her involvement, “I’m a big fan of… well, I guess I shouldn’t tell you which project I’m working on but all of the writers and directors [on DEEPEST, DARKEST] are amazing, so getting a chance to work with them was an opportunity that I didn’t want to miss.”

A multiple Critics’ Choice Award nominee, Dawson stars on Disney+’s acclaimed Star Wars series Ahsoka, which has a second season in development.

Most recently, she wrapped opposite Alexandra Shipp and Milla Jovovich on Midnight, an action thriller from first-time feature filmmaker Joshua Otis, for which she also served as producer.

NBC Developing Latino Immigrant-Family Comedy Inspired by Chris Garcia’s Own Upbringing

Chris Garcia is looking to bring his story to the small screen… 

NBC has put in development a semi-autobiographical immigrant-family comedy from the Cuban American comedian-writer-actor and Mr. Iglesias creator Kevin Hench.

Chris Garcia

Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

Written and executive produced by Garcia and Hench, the multi-generational immigrant-family comedy, inspired by Garcia’s life, is about an anti-communist Cuban father who enrolls in ESL classes at the same high school as his sensitive poetry-loving son.

Garcia is a comedian, television writer, actor, and podcaster from Los Angeles, who has appeared on his own half-hour special on Comedy Central, The Late Late Show with James Corden, This Is Not Happening, Adam Devine’s House Party, and @Midnight.

Garcia was named a New Face at the 2016 Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival and a “Comedian You Should and Will Know” by Vulture.

He has written for Comedy Central, Adult Swim, Broadway Video, and Netflix. Garcia’s podcast Scattered was named one of the “10 Best Podcasts of 2019” by TIME Magazine.