Antonio Banderas has landed a genius role…
The 57-year-old Spanish actor will portray Pablo Picasso in the second season of National Geographic’s anthology series Genius.
Banderas will share the role of Picasso with Alex Rich.
Genius will chronicle the life and work of the acclaimed Spanish painter, one of the 20th century’s most influential and celebrated artists.
In addition, Clémence Poésy, Robert Sheehan, Poppy Delevingne, Aisling Franciosi and Sebastian Roché .
The new season, set for a 2018 premiere, is from Fox 21 Television Studios, and will again be executive produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, OddLot Entertainment and EUE/Sokolow.
Showrunner, executive producer and writer Ken Biller returns for the new season.
Production begins this month and will shoot in cities throughout Europe for the 10-episode anthology series.