FX and Kurt Sutter are steadily filling out the Mayans MC cast.
Jacqueline Obradors has been cast as a lead in Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff Mayans MC, Deadline reports. Obradors joins the previously cast JD Pardo and Edward James Olmos.
Mayans MC, created by Sutter and Elgin James, takes place after the inevitable events at the end of SOA and follows Mayan MC prospect Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes (Pardo) as he struggles to make his mark within the California/Mexico border-based charter. Olmos is set as EZ’s father and head of the Reyes family, and Obradors will be Marisol Reyes, EZ’s mother (though hopefully for EZ’s sake not a Gemma type of mother).
Obradors’ claim to fame is as NYPD Blue‘s Detective Rita Ortiz, and she could most recently be seen in a few episodes of TV Land’s Lopez, though her most widely seen role may be the spunky, tough mechanic Audrey Ramirez in Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Mayans MC is still at the pilot stage for FX, though considering FX’s history with Sutter and SOA‘s huge success a pickup seems likely. Sutter is set to direct the pilot, and he will executive produce along with James.