After news broke that Eva Longoria has been cast as Dora’s mother, Michael Pena is the next to join the cast of Dora The Explorer.
First reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Pena will play Dora’s father.
Dora the Explorer will be a live-action update of the iconic Nickelodeon cartoon, which sees a high school-bound Dora finding herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego and a rag-tag group of teens on a Goonies-esque adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.
Isabela Moner will be portraying Dora, while the rest of the cast including Eugenio Derbez, Micke Moreno, Nicholas Coombe, Madeleine Madden, Adriana Barraza, and Temura Morrison.