Michael Peña opened up about how All Her Fault creator Megan Gallagher convinced him to join the show.
“[She] has a child with special needs and the story line [for my character] was very near and dear to her,” Peňa, 46, exclusively told Us Weekly at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, January 4, in California. “She wrote me a letter and it worked.”
Peña, whose character Detective Alcaras is a father to a nonverbal son with developmental disabilities, really connected with the script.
“You read it with a special kind of consideration,” he noted. “The reveal is in episode 4, but it hints...
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