{"id":528564,"date":"2026-06-10T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/528564\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:10:12","slug":"task-season-two-adds-edgar-edgar-ramirez-to-the-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/528564\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Task&#8217; Season Two Adds Edgar Edgar Ram\u00edrez To The Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Edgar Ram\u00edrezis set to join <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mark-ruffalo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mark-ruffalo\" data-tag=\"mark-ruffalo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Ruffalo<\/a> and Mahershala Ali in the second season of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>\u2018s lauded crime drama\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/task\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Task<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harry-melling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Melling<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/adam-nagaitis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Nagaitis<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/aminah-nieves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aminah Nieves<\/a>\u00a0also recently joined the ensemble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs previously announced, Ali plays Eddie Barnes, a seasoned and well-respected DEA agent in Philadelphia whose team comes into conflict with the unit of Tom Brandis, played by Ruffalo, who headlined Season 1 opposite Tom Pelphrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEdgar Ram\u00edrez will play Miguel Contreras, a\u00a0devoted\u00a0family man\u00a0and loyal DEA second-in-command torn between duty and guilt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe first season of\u00a0Task\u00a0found Ruffalo\u2019s Brandis forming a task force to track down a crew of masked robbers, led by a working-class family man, that were carrying out a series of violent crimes in the Philadelphia area. In Season 2, Brandis takes the helm of a new task force, but the deeper the operation runs, the harder it is to tell who\u2019s the target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTask\u00a0is created by Brad Ingelsby, who returned to HBO following his work on its Emmy-winning crime drama\u00a0Mare of Easttown. Ingelsby is also writing, showrunning, and exec producing alongside Paul Lee and Mark Roybal for wiip, Jeremiah Zagar, Ruffalo, and Ron Schmidt. Nicole Jordan-Webber and Karen Wacker are co-executive producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEdgar Ram\u00edrez was most recently seen in Emilia Perez,\u00a0the 2024 Cannes Film Festival jury prize-winning\u00a0film\u00a0and the most-nominated film in\u00a0Golden Globe\u00a0history with ten nominations at the 82nd ceremony, winning four, including Best Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy and Best Foreign Language Film. The musical film is directed by Jacques Audiard and stars alongside Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, and Karla Sofia Gasc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe also recently completed work as producer and actor on the Netflix feature Aun Es de Noche En Caracas, based on the New York Times best-selling novel, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at TIFF in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe is repped by CAA, Impression Entertainment\u00a0and\u00a0Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof, and Fishman.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Edgar Ram\u00edrezis set to join Mark Ruffalo and Mahershala Ali in the second season of\u00a0HBO\u2018s lauded crime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[122698,18,117,19,17,9921,1800,128],"class_list":["post-528564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-edgar-ramirez","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mark-ruffalo","tag-task","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}