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GORDITA CHRONICLES
Sony Pictures Television Studios/HBO Max
Co-Exec Producer: Claudia Forestieri
Director: TBD
Writer: Claudia Forestieri
Casting Director: Carla Hool
Casting Associate: Byron Beane
Casting Assistant: Marisa Freeman
Start Date: o/a 3/22/21
Location: TBD
Seeking:
[ CARLOTA "CUCU" CASTELLI ]
Character portrayed is Latina, Female, 12 years old, a chubby, biracial, willful, confident, reluctant Dominican immigrant with a heart of gold. Cucu is overzealous in her quest to regain the queen bee status in her new school, when her parents and older sister move to Miami for her dad's new job. Cucu is good at making friends but in her frantic desire to rise to the top of the pecking order in her new school, she makes a big error in judgment...SERIES REGULAR
Storyline: 12 year old CARLOTA "CUCU" CASTELLI leaves her home and her parochial school in Santo Domingo to go live in Miami in the 1980s when her father, a Public Relations Executive with a large ariline, gets transferred there. Outgoing and confident, Cucu meets head-on the challenges of being an immigrant in a strange new world with humor, bravado and some really bad choices--but as her adult self says, you can make a home anywhere, as long as you're surrounded by the people you love...