HOTEL COCAINE: Maurice Compte Reflects on Helping Bring a Fictionalized Version of His Father to Life

For years, television viewers have seen Maurice Compte act in a wide array of shows like NARCOS, POWER, THE LAST SHIP, IN THE DARK, LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, and MAYANS M.C. But his creative impact on the MGM+ series HOTEL COCAINE is a bit different…and a lot more personal.

The new drama (which wraps up its first season on Sunday, August 4) follows Román Compte (Danny Pino), the manager of The Mutiny Hotel. In the series, Román tries to protect his brother, Nestor (Yul Vazquez), who has been smuggling cocaine and his the rest of his family (who the DEA threatened in order to get Román to inform on Nestor).

Though the series is heavily fictionalized, it’s still, at its core, the story of Maurice’s father—whom Maurice has dubbed a “cocaine cowboy.” After working with writer Chris Brancato on NARCOS, Maurice pitched that his father’s story would be one to tell. Brancato suggested he write something up and come back to him. Five years later, Maurice came back to the showrunner with an idea, and the ball started rolling on HOTEL COCAINE. 

Here, Maurice (who serves as a co-executive producer on the MGM+ series) talks with Give Me My Remote about getting the show made. Read more

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT Post-Mortem: Maurice Compte on Duarte and Olivia’s Different Approaches to Taking Down BX9

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Maurice Compte Previews Duarte’s Return to Take on BX9

Captain Mike Duarte (Maurice Compte) returns on the Thursday, January 5 episode of LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT—but it’s under pretty awful circumstances.

Months after he and the SVU squad worked together on a rape case with ties to Bx9, a few members of the notorious gang target Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay)—at home, in front of her son. Naturally, Duarte—who is in charge of the Bronx gang unit—is called in to get to the bottom of the crime.

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