Veronica Falcón, Yvette Monreal, Georgie Flores and Ceci Fernandez Star in HBO Max Pilot; Natalie Chaidez for Ep & Co-Showrun – Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Veronica Falcon (Perry Mason, Ozark), Yvette Monreal (DC’s Star lady), Georgie Flores (Well-known in love), and Ceci Fernandez (We crashed) has been solid in collection common roles within the HBO Max Unique drama pilot Extrafrom govt producer/author/co-showrunner Amy Chozick, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Tv.
Moreover, Natalie Chaidez (The flight attendant) will function govt producer and co-showrunner alongside Chozick.
Falcón portrays Leona Lorenz, the matriarch of the Lorenz household media dynasty. A former single mom, Leona used her formidable, self-taught enterprise expertise to scrap herself into the 1 %, parlaying her 4 glittering daughters right into a billion-dollar media empire with a top-rated actuality TV present and profitable model partnerships. However can this stage mother of the Instagram period obtain extra fame and energy than even she might think about with out dropping her grip on her daughters?
Monreal portrays Rio Lorenz, essentially the most sex-positive of the Lorenz sisters and an entrepreneurial superintendent who is continually planning new ventures. Rio goals to take her newest enterprise enterprise public and take the household funds to the subsequent stage…if she will simply get out of her personal means.
Flores portrays Sydney Lorenz, an aspiring artist and actress who quotes Chekhov and struggles to be taken significantly. Sydney by no means requested to undergo puberty on nationwide TV and needs she might shed her picture as a actuality TV child.
Fernandez portrays Vega Lorenz, the queer surrogate mom to her youthful sisters who endures Leona’s fixed criticism, all in service of defending her sisters and advancing her progressive causes.
Impressed by the reporting of journalist Amy Chozick, Extra follows the Lorenz household, a tight-knit clan of seemingly flawless Latinos led by mom/mastermind Leona. The Lorenzes are the Vanderbilts or Astors of the Instagram period. They rose from debt and obscurity to actuality TV stardom, forging a billion-dollar megaconglomerate not from oil or metal, however from one thing extra intangible and trendy: Affect.
Chaidez, who’s underneath an general cope with WBTV, will work with EPs Chozick and Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman of Berlanti Productions by way of his general cope with WBTV.
The venture reunites Falcón and Chaidez, who collaborated on the USA Community collection Queen of the Southas star and showrunner/EP respectively.
Falcón is represented by Lasher Group and APA; Monreal is represented by Paradigm and Koopman Administration; Flores is repped by Leisure 360 and Revolutionary Artists; Fernandez is repped by A3 Artists Company and Shelter Leisure; Chaidez is represented by CAA, Circle of Confusion and legal professional Peter Pattern.