Genius: Picasso marks Alex Rich’s first leading role in dramatic series. During Deadline’s Awardsline screening and Q&A for the Emmy Award-winning National Geographic series, Rich joked that he wasn’t intimidated at all when playing a younger version of the legendary artist. Then he admitted that for a first leading…
Why Picasso? That was the question posed to producers and stars of Genius: Picasso, the second installment of National Geographic’s scripted anthology series, during the show’s panel at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event.
‘There were three requirements for Season 2,” said executive producer/showrunner/ director Ken…
Deadline’s studio at the Tribeca Film Festival kicked off the first of five talent-filled days at the NYC fest with visits by Antonio Banderas and Alex Rich (Genius: Picasso), Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace (Stockholm), Common (Blue Night), and many more. Photographer Mark Mann is behind the lens for our series of photo…
Catching the first season of National Geographic’s Genius—starring Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein—Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated actor Antonio Banderas found what he considered “quality television,” not knowing at the time that the series from Ron Howard and Kenneth Biller would turn to Spanish painter Pablo…
Alex Rich (True Detective) has booked a recurring role in GLOW, Netflix's 10-episode straight-to-series comedy executive produced by Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan. Created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch and starring Alison Brie and Marc Maron, GLOW was inspired by the real story of the 1980s female…
