Adan Canto

Before his death at 42, Canto savored a mobile life

Adan Canto had a richly mobile life.
As a boy, he walked from Mexico to the United States – daily. As a young man, he lived in Mexico City, San Antonio, Manhattan and Los Angeles; he starred in Spanish roles and then in English, including – until his recent death – the male lead (shown here) in “The Cleaning Lady,” which starts its season at 8 p.m. Tuesday (March 5) on Fox.
Canto’s life was so mobile that even this seems logical: His death, Jan. 8, was at his home in … Clear Lake, Iowa. His memorial service was in the same Clear Lake ballroom where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper had their final concert. Read more…

She can handle surgery, karate and (maybe) a mop

Actors keep having to know (or fake) new skills.
They must ride and shoot, perform surgery, spout words that only doctors or techies would understand.
Now consider Elodie Yung (shown here), whose “The Cleaning Lady” debuts at 9 p.m. Monday on Fox. She plays a Cambodian doctor who becomes a Las Vegas cleaning lady, then works for a crime ring.
She had to learn how to do emergency first aid, but that wasn’t the hard part. “I had to learn how to clean,” Yung said in a Television Critics Association virtual press conference. Read more…