The woman who, after many an audition and quite the lengthy process, ultimately won the role to portray her in Netflix’s series “Selena,” Christian Serratos, was accordingly quite nervous about attempting the part.
The 30-year-old Burbank, Calif., native was shooting “The Walking Dead” at the time and was juggling the show’s demanding schedule, giving her every reason to pass on the Selena role. “But I couldn’t stop myself,” she says. “I kept taping, I kept communicating. I just kept working on Selena when I didn’t even have the role. So I think that’s when I realized, ‘OK, I’m not going to fight myself anymore. I’m just going to do this because clearly my body already wants to.
“Her being a Mexican American woman from a small town in Texas, and she achieved so much in such a small amount of time…I just really respected that — and she was a genius. Her music was incredible, her voice was incredible. She was such a powerhouse at such a young age,” Serratos says. “She knew how to command people on stage. She knew what she wanted to do at a young age, which is admirable in and of itself, but she was actually accomplishing it.
Part one followed Selena’s beginnings, chronicling how she grew up, came of age and what her family was like. The second installment is, as Serratos says, “what everyone expects from a Selena story.”
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