Jacqueline Obradors, Jon Beavers & Ruth Righi Join NBC Drama Pilot ‘Unbroken’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Jacqueline Obradors (Promised Land), Jon Beavers (Licorice Pizza) and Ruth Righi (Sydney To The Max) are set as leads opposite Scott Bakula, Anna Wood, Oluniké Adeliyi and Cress Williams in NBC’s drama pilot Unbroken (working title).
They also join previously announced series regulars Delon de Metz, Amanda Payton and Shian Tomlinson in the project from New Amsterdam executive producer Shaun Cassidy and Universal Television.Written and executive produced by Cassidy and directed/exec produced by Bronwen Hughes, in Unbroken, three dynastic ranch families on the central coast of California make love and war in a passionate struggle to survive, ultimately setting the stage for a group of fiercely determined young women to win big for all at the National Championship of Rodeo.2022 NBC Pilots & Series OrdersObradors will play Melanie Dominguez,the perceived trophy wife of 80-year-old Emilio Dominguez.
Melanie is in the midst of taking over the family’s agricultural empire and isn’t beyond playing dirty to take out everyone in her path.Beavers will portray Austin Epperling, the older and more outgoing sibling of a trust-funded brother duo running a local cannabis operation.Righi is Skyler Gentry, an independent, older-than-her-years young horsewoman who parents her mother as often as her mother parents her.
At 15, Skyler is already winning big on the rodeo circuit and while she has grown accustomed to the nomadic life she leads on the road with her mom, in her heart she yearns for a permanent home.Obradors can currently be seen recurring in ABC’s Promised Land and will next be seen recurring on Amazon’s Daisy Jones and the Six.
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