Overview
- Deadline revealed the recast Thursday, with Jacob Martinez’s first episode streaming June 30 on Peacock.
- He steps in for Al Calderon, who left the soap after booking a role on NBC’s Brilliant Minds.
- The character will pick back up in storylines involving a split with Leo Stark and concern over his father’s heart attack.
- Martinez will film at Burbank Studios in his daytime television debut.
- The AMDA-trained actor has credits in In Pieces at Joe’s Pub and the short Memory Swim, and he is a registered EMT like Javi.