'NINE PERFECT STRANGERS'
NICOLE KIDMAN FINDS HER RIGHT HAND IN MANNY JACINTO
The latest one to join Hulu's upcoming new series based on a book by Liane Moriarty NINE PERFECT STRANGERS is Manny Jacinto, in a cast led by Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy. It takes place at a
boutique health and wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (Nicole Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. Manny Jacinto will play Yao, a bright eyed man-kid with a hipster vibe. After a life and death encounter with Masha, Yao finds himself as her right hand man at Tranquillum, a wellness resort with unusual practices. He’s deeply committed to Masha’s self improvement techniques and teachings and is in entirely in her thrall. The series is not expected before 2021.
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| Manny Jacinto has been cast in the new series |
1ST 'EL CID' PHOTOS
FROM AMAZON'S NEW EPIC SAGA
Speaking of series that probably won't air this year, check out the first set photos of Jaime Lorente in Amazon Prime's Spanish epic series EL CID which, set on the Iberian peninsula plagued by clashes between the Muslim
and Christian kingdoms, follows Castilian mediaeval nobleman and warrior named Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid! The first season will have two six episode parts and will also star Carlos Bardem, Juan Echanove, Elia Galera, Alicia Sanz, Fran Ortiz and Ginés García Millán! Read more here.
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| The photos are from March when the production halted because of the corona outbreak |