The Brothers García portrays the trials and tribulations of a Mexican American family in San Antonio, Texas, but it represents so much more than your typical sitcom. During its four-year run on Nickelodeon in the early 2000s, The Brothers García became a groundbreaking show for its authentic depiction of the Latino community by an all-Latino cast and creative team.
I think I was mostly monosyllabic in our conversation like, “Yeah … great. Yeah.” I just couldn’t really speak. I hung up on the call, and the person I was dating at the time was like, “Who was it?” I just didn’t say anything. She says, “Who was it,” and I’m like “It was my old boss.” That’s all I said. It was weird. There was so much attached to that. There were just so many memories and it was a big thing, but that’s all I could say.
I still look up to [Jeffrey’s character] as an older brother. And now, I’m highly critical of him because the stakes are very high. I can’t just rely on that sort of familial relationship anymore, because if I were to do that and just treat him like my older brother, our business fails. So there’s so much more that I have to deal with and I have to be harsh with him. I feel like I’m in the right for most of it because I do think that he’s making a lot of mistakes and I don’t trust his character.
I’m going to quote Vanessa [Pitynski]. She said our show is like “a warm hug.” That’s how I feel when I watch it. That’s how we felt when we made it. I think that’s how people will feel for anybody who has ever been disenfranchised. I think they’re going to see themselves and their families represented in the show. But even for people who are not disenfranchised, I still think they’re going to be able to enjoy the show and just enjoy the wholesomeness of it because the world needs it right now.
Gonzalez: So I didn’t at all. It’s weird because I had a very innocent view of it. I wasn’t jaded by Hollywood or the world yet, so I was just like, “Oh, cool. I’m on a sitcom.” It never occurred to me the fact that everyone around me was also Latino. Maybe it came from watching so much I Love Lucy growing up, and seeing Desi Arnaz, another Cuban on television. I thought it was normal. I didn’t know that we were struggling so much to have proper representation in Hollywood.
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