Take Netflix’sGentefied, which is a first-generation story about a group of Mexican-American cousins chasing the American Dream.
“I really love what the folks atGentefiedare doing,” saysBrooklyn Nine-NinestarMelissa Fumero.
9-1-1 Lone Star’sGina Torresagrees, and “loves everything about this show!”
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Adds Clayton Cardenas(Mayans M.C.
): “Being Mexican-American, those stories really ring true to me.”
That’s a show that really resonates with me."
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She held her own and she was a newcomer, but she freakin' killed it.
That is so aspirational and wonderful!"
declaresshowrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett(One Day at a Time,With Love).
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“And it’s funny and it’s sweet and it has LGBTQ representation.
And it’s Cuban, and I’m Cuban, so that’s lovely too.
So I’m loving that show and I’m loving watching it with my kids.”
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And it’s funny, a comedy-horror.
It’s a lot of fun."
It was just so amazing to see a movie about Latinos.
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It felt like the frickin' Avengers!
It’s an anthology and it truly should be a part of everyone’s top five movies.
It is unfathomable how good it is!"
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“Anita was strong and funny and had integrity and was loyal.
She was just absolutely magnetic.
She could sing, she could dance, she could hold her own with the boys.
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I had never seen a Latina character like that on film.
And it’s just something that we don’t see very often.
SoSpanglish, in case you haven’t seen it, I would recommend it.
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And that family that she’s completely seduced by?
It was, ‘Here we are, this is us.'”
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Roots matter to actressMelissa Fumero.
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“I think the show most recently that really spoke to me wasOne Day at A Time.
TheBrooklyn Nine-Ninestar also praises Netflix’sGentefied.
“I really love what the folks atGentefiedare doing.
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Season 1 was just so great, so beautiful, so spoke to the Latinx culture in Los Angeles.
[It] felt really specific and genuine and I feel like not enough people are talking about it.
The cast is amazing.
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There’s so many great performances.
I really think Carlos Santos is brilliant and so funny.
I"m such a fan, I want to work with him one day.
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It’s all heavy hitters on that show and more people should be talking about it.
It was a crime, a travesty, and I’ll be mad about it forever.”
Mayans M.C.
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(2018-present)
“Also, I would be remiss if I didn’t mentionMayans M.C.”
Our show mainly circles around love, agony, and brotherhood.
The show doesn’t focus on being Latino.
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We just happen to be Latino telling you stories.
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Mayans M.C.
star Clayton Cardenas tells EWGentefieddeeply resonates with him.
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The elders mainly speak in Spanish, and the youth mainly speak in English.
I think that’s magnificent, that’s something that a lot of us have lived through.”
And I think J.Lo did a really good job of representing her spirit."
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“That film spoke to me so powerfully.
And all these years later, it really holds up.”
And I love that her story and her legacy live on forever."
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Que Pasa, USA?
I feel like that is such a universal story and I’m so happy that story was told.
It’s so funny and it doesn’t fetishize Latin people, it doesn’t ‘other’ Latin people.
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It meant a lot to me as a young person and it still does.
It’s so funny, it holds up, you should absolutely watch it.
And it’s in Spanglish, which just makes it all the better."
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