Julia Mayorga has found her people…
The Latina actress has landed in the indie drama People Not Places, hailing from director Brad Furman.
Mayorga is joined by Allegra Leguizamo as new cast additions to the film that will star Shirley MacLaine and Stephen Dorff.
Written by Ellen Brown Furman, the filmmaker’s mother, the film centers on Clare (MacLaine), an elderly widow living in Atlantic City who meets an erratic homeless man (Dorff) who sleeps in cars. Their shared loneliness causes them to bond, as they find the courage to face his regrettable past and her shortened future.
Mayorga plays Sarah, Clare’s stunning daughter-in-law with an artistic flair, who creates jewelry. Her husband Cole is torn between his need to support Sarah’s ambition and his mother’s need for more time with her son.
Leguizamo plays Allison, a young woman who asked for a gardener but got much more.
Furman and Jess Fuerst are producing the film under their Road Less Traveled Productions banner.
Currently, Mayorga can be seen opposite Jeff Daniels, Bill Camp and Maura Tierney on Showtime’s American Rust, which moved to Prime Video for its second season earlier this year.
She can also be seen leading the drama Rare Objects, marking the latest directorial outing of Katie Holmes.
Seen on series like The Equalizer and New Amsterdam, Leguizamo will next appear in Furman’s action thriller Tin Soldier, starring Jamie Foxx, Robert De Niro and Scott Eastwood, as well as Rachel Israel’s comedy The Floaters starring Jackie Tohn, Aya Cash, Jake Ryan and Seth Green.
Recently, she wrapped production on Flash Warning, a short film she stars in, which she also wrote and directed.
