Mexican actress Adriana Barraza will be part of the cast of the film ‘Cut off’, a comedy directed by actor Jonah Hill for Warner Bros., which will begin filming this fall in California, according to Variety magazine.
Hill, a two-time Oscar nominee for best supporting actor, co-wrote the script with Ezra Woods about two brothers who are suddenly separated from their parents, in which Barraza will play the family caregiver.
Hill – who will also be one of the producers -, Bette Midler, Kristen Wiig and Nathan Lane will also star in the comedy.
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Variety reported that the feature film, which obtained a $10 million tax credit, will debut in theaters in the US on July 17, 2026.
This year will also be the premiere of ‘El gato’, a new Amazon Prime Video series that will have Barraza among its actors.
Barraza, with more than five decades of career, was nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actress for ‘Babel’ (2006), by Alejandro González Iñárritu, becoming one of 13 Latinas to receive an Academy Award nomination, among them, six Mexicans.
Her performance in ‘Amores Perros’, by Iñárritu, is also remembered; in ‘Cake’ alongside Jennifer Aniston and in ‘We Can Be Heroes’, written and directed by Robert Rodríguez for Netflix.
In 2024, she received an International Emmy nomination for best actress for the film ‘El Último Vagón’, also from Netflix and, more recently, she played Nana in the DC Studios superhero film ‘Blue Beetle’ alongside Xolo Maridueña and directed by Ángel Manuel Soto.
With information from EFE
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