Who’d play your dad in the sitcom of your life? For me, it’s gotta be Jeff Goldblum, Elliot Gould, or Steve Martin. Anyway, And Just Like That… viewers will remember that at the end of the first season, Miranda leaves Steve to follow nonbinary podcaster-comedian Che Diaz across the country to Los Angeles, where they are shooting an autobiographical pilot. And the series just announced who will play Che’s dad on the show-within-a-show: Tony Danza.
Tony Danza will play the fake TV dad of Sara Ramirez. We buy it! And in the show—but not the one within the show—he will play…Tony Danza. Yeah, this isn’t a situation where he plays, like, an actor who is playing Che’s dad; he’s playing himself. As Deadline points out, Diaz tells Miranda in the season one finale, “Tony Danza is coming in to read for my father. He’s not Mexican or Irish but he is Tony Danza.” There you have it: He is Tony Danza.
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Honestly, this kinda makes sense? Both Danza and Ramirez are musical theater vets with Broadway credits under their belts, and both perform with a lot of heart and warmth. We can see it being something that a fictionalized CBS or ABC would go for!
No one from the show has commented on the casting news yet, but Danza did confirm it by posting the Deadline article on Twitter.
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