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Blindspotting makes its long-awaited return next month, and Starz released the first trailer for Season 2 on Wednesday. The second installment of Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs‘ comedy series, which is a follow-up to the pair’s 2018 film, picks up nine months after Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and…

Starz has set the Season 2 premiere of Blindspotting for April 14 and released first-look images (below). The two-episode premiere will air linearly on Starz in the U.S. and Canada at 9 p.m. ET/PT immediately followed by episode two at 9:30 pm ET/PT. All subsequent episodes will air Fridays at 9…

EXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenate writer, producer, director, actor, composer and poet Rafael Casal has signed with CAA for representation. Casal, along with Daveed Diggs, co-wrote, produced and starred in the 2018 movie Blindspotting. The two co-created and executive produce Starz's Blindspotting series spinoff, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Rafael Casal (Blindspotting) is set for a major role in the upcoming second season of Disney+’s Marvel series Loki, sources tell Deadline. A rep for Marvel declined comment but word of Casal’s casting started trickling out when a photo from the set of Season 2 leaked online. It features Casal walking…

Blindspotting co-creators Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs initially thought that a series spinoff of their 2018 film wouldn’t work when Lionsgate first brought up the idea. “We said, ‘No it wouldn’t,’ and we thought that was the end of it,” Diggs said. Contenders TV — Deadline’s Complete Coverage Nearly four years after…

Blindspotting creators Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal joined writers Priscila García-Jacquier, Alanna Brown, Nijla Mumin and actor Benjamin Earl Turner on Saturday to talk about the unique challenges adapting a film for television. The show is a spinoff of the 2018 film of the same name written and produced by Casal…

Starz has ordered its television spin-off of Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs' feature Blindspotting to series. Jasmine Cephas Jones, who starred in the Lionsgate film, will reprise her role and will also serve as a producer. The film, which was released in 2018, is being spun off as a half-hour dramedy with Casal…

EXCLUSIVE: Rafael Casal (Blindspotting) is set for a recurring role opposite Ethan Hawke in Showtime's The Good Lord Bird based on James McBride's novel, from Blumhouse Television. The Good Lord Bird is told from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Johnson-Lionel), a fictional enslaved boy, who is part of John Brown's…

EXCLUSIVE: Blindspotting stars Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs, and the film’s producers Snoot Entertainment are reteaming with Lionsgate on First Sight, a film which Casal will write and direct for his feature directorial debut. Described as a sci-fi romantic comedy, the pic is about falling asleep to find the person of…

There’s a lot to unpack when it comes to the verse-driven stylings of Lionsgate’s film Blindspotting — and the film’s stars and co-writers Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal paid a visit to the New Hollywood Podcast to wax poetic on all the details. Marking the directorial debut of Carlos López Estrada, the film, which…

It's not difficult to see how Blindspotting emerged as one of the true sensations of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and as I say in my video review above, the answer is its startling originality and fearlessness in confronting some uncomfortable truths of our lives now. Even though this highly dramatic, often…

Blindspotting actors and co-writers Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal took to the stage at CinemaCon last week during Lionsgate’s presentation of their Sundance film for a spoken word performance that paid tribute to the unarmed people of color who were killed by police — specifically in the past few years. In the video…