“Tulsa King” revealed a major casting update Thursday as season two of the hit Taylor Sheridan series gets into production.
Actor Frank Grillo is joining the Sylvester Stallone-led hit “comedy of errors” in a whole new way, according to Deadline. Grillo is coming in as a series regular, a hugely incredible win for the Marvel actor that will likely see him move on to whatever other Sheridan shows he’d like to do in the future.
The second season of the modern mafia series is expected to debut in the fall of 2024, with filming having already commenced in Oklahoma and Georgia, the outlet noted.
Grillo will portray the role of Bill Bevilaqua, a Kansas City mobster who has eyes on Tulsa for his next big move, suggesting he’ll be the go-to bad guy for the upcoming season. Or, could Stallone’s character, Dwight “The General” Manfredi, form a whole new organized coalition against his ratty former New York gang?
Grillo’s extensive IMDB credits include a brief stint on the previous season of “Tulsa King,” as well as “Lamborghini,” “Billions” and one of my personal favorite movies of all time, “End of Watch.”
In 2022, Grillo hit headlines after his boxing coach was murdered in Los Angeles outside of a marijuana dispensary. “I don’t know what’s happened to Los Angeles that a beautiful guy like this gets shot and killed over nothing,” Grillo said after the attack. (RELATED: Marvel’s Frank Grillo Rips LA Crime After His Boxing Trainer Is Shot And Killed Outside Weed Store)
Perhaps Grillo will join the ranks of seemingly all A-list and sensible celebrities in getting the heck out of Los Angeles for cleaner, safer, less stupidly run parts of the country.
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