We are tribal people and proud of our heritage. Once you meet him, you understand that it’s fantastical, but it’s really rooted in family, in pain and in love, and those real human elements elevate what could just be an average superhero film.LOPEZ: Before, if you threw a lot of money at a movie, it would be successful because it cost so much to make, and that’s not necessarily the case anymore. There was no room for cattiness or pettiness.
It is rare to have a mostly ego-less male Latino cast.
This film shows a very necessary voice.AG: We do not have a lot of people like us behind the camera telling our story. We don’t live in a world where I’ve seen this as a reality, so it was more of a mystery than anything to me, when I started reading the script. I want to create the change and want to see it.
When people take a tried and true formula and break the mold, it just blossoms into success.
It was physically demanding, in a way that was really, really exciting, and that was a great way to connect into the story and into the physicality.
El Chicano follows his journey through a murder with a close family member. I remember going to see Wonder Woman, and there was a transitional scene, where she was in the forest with the guys and her horse was in front of the guys’ horse, and I started crying because I’d never seen that before. We are an important part of the American puzzle.
So, for me, it was so refreshing to see not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but 10 flushed out characters, who just happen to be Latino. We were press for time. It wasn’t a big action scene, it was a transitional scene, going from point A to point B, but it was the first time that I’d ever seen a woman lead guys, and I just started crying.
It was a nice experience with speaking Spanish at lunch.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law. El Chicano in US theaters March 22, 2019 starring Raul Castillo, George Lopez, Aimee Garcia, Emilio Rivera. There was a lot of love in the room. Those were really fun. She came back to teach grade school in her community.
You have people like Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Ellen Ochoa.
After a gang leader named Shotgun murders several members of his own gang, Los Angeles police detective Diego Hernandez learns of a connection between the gang murders and the death of his own brother Pedro. * El Chicano arranged and performed the original Baretta TV series theme song before the Sammy Davis Jr. vocal version. I’ve never done anything like this, so I was like a little kid in a candy store, just getting to do this awesome stuff. Once you meet him, you understand that it’s fantastical, but it’s really rooted in family, in pain and in love, and those real human elements elevate what could just be an average superhero film.LOPEZ: Before, if you threw a lot of money at a movie, it would be successful because it cost so much to make, and that’s not necessarily the case anymore.
It was fast and furious but great indie filmmaking.AG: Everyone was able to be themselves.
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