The 38-year-old Guatemalan actor has been cast in the 20th Centuryfeature Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, a buddy action comedy set in the criminal underworld from writer and director BenDavid Grabinsk.
Castro joins Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza Gonzalez and Jimmy Tatro as part of the ensemble playing Tatro’s friend. Character names and descriptions have yet to be revealed.
Castro’s breakout role was portraying Jaime in the Comedy Central series Broad City which ran for five seasons. He followed that up with the comedy sketch series Alternatino for Comedy Central, which he created, executive produced and starred in.
Most recently, he starred in Mark Mylod’s The Menu for Searchlight, produced by Adam McKay; Amazon’s Road House, a remake of the 1989 film opposite Jake Gyllenhaal; and Michael Liwak’s feature Molli and Max in the Future.
His additional credits include the Joseph Gordon-Levitt Apple series Mr. Corman produced by A24 and Antoine Fuqua’s Amazon series The Terminal List.
He can also be seen in Netflix’s Narcos Season 2, where he played the menacing son and tyrant of a Colombian drug lord.
Eiza González is thisclose to locking in her next project. The 34-year-old Mexican actress and singer is in negotiations to co-star opposite Vince Vaughn and James Marsden in the 20th Century film Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. BenDavid Grabinski will write and direct, with Andrew Lazar producing. While plot details are…
It looks like Arturo Castro is ready to sketch out… Comedy Central has announced its 2017-2018 development slate, with the Guatemalan actor’s half-hour sketch show Alternatino making the grade. Based on the Comedy Central digital series, the pilot will be hosted and performed by Castro as he attempts to navigate life…
Arturo Castro has Flipped out! The 33-year-old Guatemalan actor is set to star in Flipped, a new comedy series from Groundlings alums Steve Mallory and Damon Jones, and Funny or Die, for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi. Castro will star opposite Eva Longoria, Andy Garcia, Will Forteand Kaitlin Olsonin the series, which is currently in production. Written by Mallory and Jones, Flipped centers around chronically underemployed…
Castro joins Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza Gonzalez and Jimmy Tatro as part of the ensemble playing Tatro’s friend. Character names and descriptions have yet to be revealed.
