Posted by Milan Skrecek
on January 10, 2026
Some casting announcements whisper. This one salsa dances into the room, steals your drink, fixes your posture, and then apologizes charmingly while doing it.
KKW Studios is thrilled to officially attach Josefine Lindegaard to A Caliente Christmas in the role of Laura Nisen, and yes, we are very aware how good that sentence looks on paper. We typed it twice just to be sure.
If you know the script, you already know Laura. She is elegant but not precious, grounded but not boring, emotionally intelligent with a razor edge of humor when required. She walks into chaos and somehow the chaos apologizes to her. Casting Josefine was not a debate, it was a recognition. A natural fit in the truest sense. Her screen presence has that rare duality, composed on the surface, volcanic underneath, which is exactly what Laura needs to be in a story where tequila barrels, salsa competitions, and unresolved feelings all collide during the holidays.
Josefine brings an international sensibility that elevates the role without trying too hard. You have seen her in Rebel Moon, A Man Called Otto, Rotten Flowers, and more, but what sealed it for us was not a resume bullet. It was the way she balances emotional restraint with sudden, human unpredictability. Laura is not the loudest person in the room. She does not need to be. She just needs to be right. Josefine understands that instinctively.
And now, the fun part.
Laura’s calm, perceptive energy is about to bounce beautifully off the absolute chaos that is our character Dee-Dee. The contrast is intentional. The friction is the point. Laura observes. Dee-Dee detonates. Watching those two energies collide is going to be cinematic sport. The dichotomy is delicious, and we promise, the audience will feel it immediately.
With Josefine officially on board, that makes three confirmed cast attachments for A Caliente Christmas. Josh, Eliana, and now Josefine. Three locked. Three announced. Three we can say out loud without whispering into a lawyer’s voicemail.
Unofficially though, we have five more moving through the pipeline. We love them. We want them. They are circling the material, asking smart questions, and imagining themselves dancing through Jalisco. But announcements require ink, and we respect ink. When the contracts are signed, sealed, and done drying on a flat surface away from curious pets, we will make noise. Until then, consider this a raised eyebrow, not a wink.
Timing matters, and ours is intentional.
We are pushing to have the core cast set ahead of our January 27 scouting trip to Guadalajara and Arandas, Mexico. This is not a casual vacation with notebooks. This is boots on cobblestones, tequila dust on shoes, sunlight bouncing off church stone, and very real locations that shape performance choices. We want our actors imagining themselves in these spaces, not guessing.
Immediately after that, we head straight into NATPE for distribution conversations running February 4 through 6. These meetings are about alignment, tone, scale, and confidence. Walking into those rooms with a cast that looks this sharp is not subtle. It is strategic.
Josefine’s attachment does exactly what great casting should do. It clarifies the movie. It sharpens the tone. It raises expectations internally and externally. Laura Nisen is no longer theoretical. She is real, textured, and very much alive in Josefine’s hands.
We could not be more excited to welcome her to the KKW Studios family. The ensemble is taking shape. The story is locking into place. The heat is rising, in the most festive, cinnamon-and-tequila way possible.
More soon. Much more.
But for now, raise a glass. Preferably one made of agave.
