Gina Torres will not be enjoying one in all Dracula’s Brides (boo! hiss!), however a minimum of she has a brand new TV function.
Simply months after ABC handed on The Brides, the beloved Fits star is reuniting with Firefly’s Tim Minear for her newest TV function.
Torres has been set to play a paramedic on 9-1-1: Lone Star Season 2, and the very best a part of the casting information is that we are able to affirm it’s a sequence common function.
She is going to play Tommy Vega, a parademic, who gave up her beloved job to boost her twin daughters, however the COVID-19 pandemic modified all the things for her.
“Together with her husband’s restaurant going below, Tommy has no alternative however to re-enter the workforce to help her household,” the official character description reads.
“Although it breaks her coronary heart to be other than her little ladies, Tommy will present the world that regardless of how a lot time has handed, when she places on that uniform, she’s nonetheless a boss.”
“We’re so excited to be increasing our 9-1-1-verse with the addition of Gina Torres,” stated showrunner Tim Minear.
“I’ve been dying to put in writing for her once more ever since Firefly [where Minear served as writer and EP]. Gina brings heat, intelligence and command to all the things she does. 2020 is lastly trying up.”
Torres most just lately starred on Pearson, the sensible, however canceled spinoff of Fits.
She appeared in a lead function for the primary six seasons of Fits, and popped again up within the last seasons as Jessica Pearson.
The casting confirms that 9-1-1: Lone Star will, like many different reveals, sort out the pandemic throughout its subsequent season.
Manufacturing was set to get underway earlier this yr, however as a substitute, it should start this fall, that means followers might be ready till early 2021 for brand spanking new episodes.
She joins a forged that already contains Rob Lowe, Liv Tyler, Ronen Rubinstein, Sierra McClain, Jim Parrack, Natacha Karam, Brian Michael Smith, Rafael Silva, and Julian Works.
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