SOA Adds Jimmy Smits As New Bad Guy

[Vaark]

Always liked his work, although playing a hard core tatted up Latino biker who's a bad influence on Jax is a bit of a departure. It's good to see the show moving forward in new directions. Can't wait!

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NYPD Blue alum
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is joining the upcoming fifth season of FX’s flagship drama
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for a major, season-long arc. On the dark biker soap, Smits will play Neron “Nero” Padilla, a Latino gangbanger with an exit strategy who becomes a dangerous mentor for Jax (Charlie Hunnam).

Smits has played bad guys before, most notably the scheming ADA Miguel Prado in another season-long arc on a gritty cable drama, Showtime’sDexter, but this marks a rare departure from Smits’ trademark shirt-and-suit look associated with most of his characters. Nero is envisioned as being heavily tattooed and definitely won’t be wearing a suit. He also is expected to be as dark and possibly even darker than Prado, a role that earned Smits an Emmy nomination.

SOA has been renewed for a fifth and sixth season, with a seventh cycle considered a given after series creator Kurt Sutter was recently
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to a three-year deal.

[DzakkH13]

Exciting cast. He was brilliant in Dexter, can see why they hired him in the mentor role.

Season 5 sounds better than season 4 already!

[raymond]

I can't watch to start watching the new season