The former late-night host continues his streak of playing serious characters with No Man’s Land. From a vengeful father in River Runs Red to an LAPD captain in El Chicano to a member of the Mexican mafia in The Tax Collector, there’s nothing funny about the roles Lopez has been attracted to for the last few years. Still, it wasn’t until around 2018 when Lopez’s dramatic choices started becoming the rule and not the exception. The true story followed a group of Latino students who go on to win a major engineering competition. Later in his career, he played a Phoenix high school teacher in the 2015 drama Spare Parts. The film was then nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. Early on in his acting career, he played an abusive boss on Bread and Roses, director Ken Loach’s drama about janitorial workers in Los Angeles who fought for better working conditions. Now, Lopez, 59, is open to more dramatic roles. For the last two decades, comedian George Lopez has been known for making millions of people laugh on TV sitcoms like his namesake series and animated movies like The Smurfs and Rio, but the original Latin King of Comedy has made a conscious decision over the last few years to do things a bit different.

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