Raúl Castillo joins Jennifer Jason Leigh in Netflix’s “Atypical”December 6, 2016 - 12:12 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - “Looking” star Raúl Castillo has joined the cast of Netflix’s “Atypical”, Variety has learned exclusively. “Atypical” is a dark comedy centering an 18-year-old son (Keir Gilchrist) on the autism spectrum and his family: mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh, also a producer on the series), father (Michael Rapaport), and sister (Brigette Lundy-Paine). Castillo will recur in a long arc on the series as Nick, a handsome, free-spirited bartender who meets Leigh’s Elsa. “How I Met Your Mother” alum Robia Rashid created the family comedy, which was given a straight-to-series order at the streaming giant in October. Rashid will pen the series and serve as an executive producer with Mary Rohlich and Seth Gordon, who is set to direct the pilot. Castillo’s dance card is a little full of late: In addition to “Atypical,” he’ll also appear alongside Regina King in Netflix’s “Seven Seconds” (helmed by Veena Sud), is filming a recurring role on The CW’s “Archie” adaptation “Riverdale,” and is in production on the feature adaptation of Justin Torres novel “We the Animals.” Castillo, best known as the singularly charming Richie on “Looking,” also recently appeared in Joe Swanberg’s Netflix series “Easy.” Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |