BORIS:
Male | Caucasian | Age:
30 - 45 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel RequiredMuscle for Yuri in the prologue a “slab of meat in a coat.” Performs the beating while Yuri talks. Almost no dialogue; all physical presence.
Specs: 30–45, East
...more CEDRIC LANZA - CRITIC:
Male | Any Ethnicity | Age:
45 - 65 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
50s, famous critic in white linen—the “night we’ve been praying for.” His presence raises the stakes for the whole restaurant. Elegant,
...more CLYDE:
Male | Any Ethnicity | Age:
25 - 35 | Role Type:
Leading |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Line cook at Terre del Sapore. Mustache, a bit of comic relief, but also constantly scrambling to keep up with Dimitri’s standards. He
...more DANI:
Male or Female | Any Ethnicity | Age:
20 - 28 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
20s beginner on the line moving tomato cans, doing grunt work. Mostly visual, but embodies the “new kid” in service.
Specs: 20–28, a
...more DEBTOR:
Male | Any Ethnicity | Age:
25 - 55 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN NEW YORK ONLY)
The terrified guy in the opening who owes Yuri money. We see him beg, get dragged out, and beaten. Needs to sell real fear and despe
...more DIMITRI:
Male | Caucasian | Age:
24 - 32 | Role Type:
Leading |
Video Reel RequiredLate-20s to mid-30s Eastern European/Slavic actor (or someone who can convincingly play Russian) to portray a lean, intense, emotionally contained ex-collector try
...more DINING ROOM REGULARS - REGULAR 1 / 2:
Male or Female | Any Ethnicity | Age:
30 - 60 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Two regulars who come in early, joke with Rodrigo about last week’s arrabbiata, and set the tone for the restaurant as a real neighborh
...more EXTRAS:
Male or Female | Any Ethnicity | Age:
18 - 80 | Role Type:
Background(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Kitchen staff & dishwashers: Diverse, all ages 20–50, comfortable moving in tight spaces with hot pans.
Dining room guests: Date nig
...more HANS:
Male | Caucasian | Age:
30 - 50 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
30s German ex-military working as Katarina’s shadow and enforcer. The guy who carries the extra box, drives the car, and quietly reads
...more JACOB:
Male | Caucasian | Age:
27 - 40 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Fellow cook from New York, worn down but kind. He drives Dimitri to the bus, gives him the watch, and later calls to warn him that Russ
...more JULIANA:
Female | Caucasian, Hispanic, Multi-Ethnic | Age:
20 - 30 | Role Type:
Leading |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
A 22–30-year-old Latina (preferably Cuban-American/South Florida Latinx) to play a warm but resilient Miami server with quiet grace and
...more KATARINA:
Female | Caucasian | Age:
24 - 32 | Role Type:
Leading |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Mid-20s Russian, Sergei’s daughter. Lives in Miami running “accounts”—essentially debt collection with brains instead of brute force. E
...more MANUEL:
Male | Caucasian, Hispanic | Age:
23 - 35 | Role Type:
Leading |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Late-20s grill cook, slick, territorial, and proud. Feels the restaurant is his home turf and Dimitri is the outsider who stole “his” s
...more PRODUCE DRIVER:
Male | Any Ethnicity | Age:
30 - 55 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Regular driver who brings the tomato crates and unknowingly rolls in the drugs with Hans. Friendly, normal, not part of the crime world
...more RICO / OSCAR / TITO - POKER CREW:
Male | Any Ethnicity | Age:
25 - 50 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Cooks/driver Manuel plays cards with. Locker-room energy, loud, teasing; not outright criminals but used to grey money. They help flesh
...more RODRIGO:
Male | Caucasian, Hispanic, Multi-Ethnic | Age:
40 - 55 | Role Type:
Leading |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
40s Latin chef-owner of Terre del Sapore, equal parts hustler, dad, and firefighter—running a drowning restaurant and a drowning family
...more SERGEI - VOICE OVER:
Male | Any Ethnicity | Age:
50 - 65 |
Audio Reel RequiredPapa Voice (possible Cameo), Katarina’s father, an old-school Russian boss still in Moscow. Mainly heard on the phone—dry wit, ruthless worldview, treats family an
...more TV CHEF:
Male | Any Ethnicity | Age:
30 - 55 | Role Type:
Day Player |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN MIAMI ONLY)
Celebrity chef screaming at his brigade over a perfect dish the “passion” Dimitri watches on TV. Energetic, over-the-top, only heard.
...more YURI:
Male | Caucasian | Age:
40 - 55 | Role Type:
Leading |
Video Reel Required(SHOOTING IN NEW YORK ONLY)
40s Russian crime boss in New York who financed Dimitri’s way to the US. Immaculate suit, dead eyes, talks softly, lets others do th
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