Tuesday’s Season 3 premiere of “The Cleaning Lady” isn’t the type of episode you would expect from a series that lost one of its leading actors in the middle of production. That’s because it was written and filmed with the hope Adan Canto would one day return.
“We did actually have a season crafted initially that was very focused on Arman’s past and his backstory,” Miranda Kwok, the showrunner and executive producer for “The Cleaning Lady,” told TheWrap. “Unfortunately, when we learned [of Canto’s cancer diagnosis], we had to pivot. We weren’t sure if we were going to get him back.