Desire Star Óscar Casas Signs With Impression Entertainment
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- Óscar Casas has signed with Impression Entertainment for management, the company founded by Jill Littman and Michael Baum.
- Desire (Deseo), the Mexican erotic thriller Casas stars in, hit #1 on Netflix's Global Top 10 Non-English Movies chart with 12.9M views in its first week after its July 17 streaming premiere.
- A Puño Descubierto, a boxing drama Casas recently wrapped, was written and directed by his older brother Mario Casas and is slated for release next year.
- Casas' film credits include the coming-of-age MotoGP story "Idols" and the romantic comedy "You Stole My Heart," while his TV work spans Netflix's "Xtreme," Prime Video's "Jaguar," and the fantasy series "Always a Witch."
- Impression Entertainment's roster already includes Édgar Ramírez, Antony Starr, François Arnaud, Reid Scott, and María Gabriela De Faría; Casas remains repped by United Agents in the UK.
Why it matters: A #1 global Netflix hit gives talent managers ammunition to pitch clients for English-language crossover roles, and Casas now pairs US representation with his existing UK agent. With a brother-directed boxing film due out next year and 12.9 million first-week views behind him, the timing positions him as a newly bankable bilingual lead coming out of Spain.
