HBO Max's The Gordita Chronicles finds its lead

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Newcomer Olivia Goncalves will star as Carlota “Cucu” Castelli,  a willful 12-year-old Dominican immigrant with a heart of gold, in the HBO Max comedy. "Cucu leaves her home and her parochial school in Santo Domingo to live in Miami and pursue the American Dream during the hedonistic 1980’s when her father, a marketing executive with a large airline, gets transferred there," per Deadline. "Cucu meets head-on the challenges of being an immigrant in a strange new world with humor, bravado and some really bad choices."