- I am such a huge Selena fan myself and I have so much love
and respect for this woman.
I just wanna honor her and them and the family.
(Tejano music)
- Oh, oh, boy do I have a treat for you today?
I am interviewing the cast of "Selena: The Series"
on Netflix.
I don't know if you guys remember just how excited I was
just to hear the announcement that the series
was being made.
(dramatic music)
(Tejano music)
I'm so excited, I could throw up.
Did I do it?
Ow, did you hear that crack in my arm?
I'm gonna meet the cast of "Selena: The Series" on Netflix.
Play a little, play a little game,
a little quiz that we made for them to see how much
they really know about Selena Quintanilla,
which I think they will know a lot,
because they are in the series, so.
Let's go.
I wanna to take you guys along with being
on the behind the scenes,
because it's a little chaotic.
I just found out literally right now before the interviews
that I will have four minutes with them,
and they're in pairs.
I'm waiting in this room and I have some
of the questions here.
I have my other questions here.
I just wanted to show you guys what it's like
to do these junkets.
It's a lot, but I have four minutes.
So first up,
I think I'm gonna be talking to Ricardo who plays Abraham,
and then Gabriel who plays A.B.
All right you guys,
we're gonna be taking a BuzzFeed quiz about Selena.
You ready?
- No. (laughing)
- Nope, that's right.
- [Maya] Get ready, get ready.
Was Spanish Selena's first language?
- No.
- No. (bell dinging)
- That's correct.
Selena was known widely as queen of what?
Tejano music, Texas, Spanish Pop, Corpus Christi.
- Tejano music.
- Queen of Tejano music.
(bell dinging) - That's correct, wow.
I mean, you won.
You did it.
(laughing)
The roles that you guys are playing,
they're not characters somebody just made up.
They're actual real life people.
What kind of prep work did it take for you guys
to study the role?
- I think our production team, our creators,
our directors, and producers,
they gave us like,
packages and stuff like that,
that we could really dive into.
It was pretty easy to jump in.
And but obviously we do our part and doing our research,
and learning about,
whether from our personal experiences with Selena,
and then, or just learning about, A.B. and Abraham,
and everybody else.
We put it in a lot of love and passion,
and I think you'll be able to,
you'll be able to see that in the show.
- I lived in San Antonio.
I grew up in South Texas.
Selena and I were born the same year,
four months apart.
As I was growing up,
I was seeing all of these stories about her successes
in concerts, Tejano Music Awards,
so it was part of the environment that I grew up in.
So I absolutely understand the significance,
and but, but I heard about it enough.
Know, having all that as part of my background did nothing,
but inform me for getting ready to step into this role,
but it didn't mean that I didn't have work to do.
From watching old interviews of Abraham
that I could find online to realizing that it's
like he is indicative of every Mexican American macho father
that I've come across,
including my own,
I could then draw from them, and pieces from them,
and put them into my bag that I would use
to approach this character.
- Nice, thank you guys so much.
That's all I have.
You guys pass, you won!
(laughing)
- Thank you, I appreciate it.
- [Ricardo] that's great.
- Next up is Noemi who plays Suzette
and Seidy who plays Marcella.
- You guys know Seidy Lopez,
who was in "Mi vida loca", La Mousie.
She was also on "Pero Like",
in a "Pero Like" video when I first got there.
I had her and Angel who is Sad Girl in "Mi vida loca".
I saw the series and I have to say that their performances
were so good.
Hi. (laughing)
- Hi, can I tell you how much I love you and what you do
young lady? - Exactly, yes.
- I love you.
- That beautiful energy. - I'm excited.
- Mm-hmm.
- I love you.
Okay, we're gonna be doing a BuzzFeed quiz about Selena.
Just real quick.
Easy questions.
Question number one,
what color was her famous Astrodome jumpsuit?
Blue, hot pink, purple, or maroon?
- Purple.
(bell dinging)
- Maroon.
No, I'm just kidding. (laughing)
- Did you hear that?
- Yeah, I saw your reaction.
I was like, what ya gonna say if I say maroon?
(laughing)
Come on now, that's purple.
(laughing)
What was Selena's tour bus named?
I'm not gonna give you options, just you know.
- Big Bertha.
- Big Bertha, yeah.
That's Bertha right there.
(bell dinging)
- And you guys won.
You guys won.
(laughing)
So I just have one last question for you guys.
There are some costumes.
There are some outfits.
You guys turn out some looks.
Okay, what was your favorite look that you turned out
in the series?
- I think my favorite look for Suzette was the
the curly haired pompadour.
You know it was very 80s and you can see
that Suzette really loved that time and that style,
and that it was fun,
and it was playful, and that she owned all her good, good,
and that she was,
she was going to be bold and dynamic.
And I really enjoyed playing a such strong stylish woman.
- I think for me,
to be honest with you is once I put on those glasses,
and that wig, and anything with shoulder pads,
I just felt it.
I was like, yes okay I'm there.
I feel her.
So I guess, I guess all the outfits with the shoulder pads.
(laughing)
- You guys looked amazing.
Your performances are so good.
I was like, oh my God, this is so cool.
- Thank you.
- I congratulate you guys.
Thank you so much for doing this silly little video with me.
- Oh no, no, no thank you for having us.
- It was fun, thank you.
- So now we are about to enter the room
to talk to Christian,
who plays Selena Quintanilla in "Selena: The Series",
so I'm a little nervous.
Hi so today we're going to be taking a BuzzFeed Selena quiz.
They're super easy.
I think you're going to ace it.
So first question,
which apartment does el chico live in?
(speaking foreign language)
- (speaking foreign language), you got it.
Okay this one kind of stumped me.
What did Selena have a huge collection of?
Old coins, red lipsticks, gold hoop earrings,
or Faberge eggs.
How do you say it?
- Faberge eggs.
(bell dinging)
- Yeah, that's it.
You got it.
(laughing)
You won, you won the quiz.
Wow. - That's it?
- That's it, you did it.
- Oh it was so fun.
I wanted more.
(laughing)
- I was so like impressed by the fact
that you guys completely redid like some
of the classic performances.
What was it like to train for those performances
'cause I mean, kudos to you?
- Fun, I loved,
I loved the preparation process.
Like I loved working with the dialect coach
and I loved working with the vocal coach,
and I loved memorizing all the songs,
learning some of the songs.
I didn't know all the lyrics to all of her songs.
I didn't know her library of music was so extensive.
And so that it made me so much more confident
in my ability to play Selena,
but also as a Mexican American.
Like I felt it was such a sense of pride.
Her stage presence was changing.
She was young when she started in the music industry.
So she wasn't always the icon that we know today
who was heavily influenced by
like Rocio Durcal and flamenco.
She had to find that.
And it's really interesting to see the Selena we know,
and then in contrast to the Selena who was just starting off
in music who really just like did this onstage.
So I think,
I think a lot of fans are really attached to the Selena
that they've known their entire lives,
which is like Selena at 21, 20.
- What is your message to the Selena fandom
before watching the series?
- I am such a huge Selena fan myself and I have so much love
and respect for this woman and what she did for women
in our community and our community in general.
And I just wanna honor her, and them, and the family.
And I'm excited for them to watch our show.
I think it's fun.
I think it's heartwarming.
I think we did a really good job at really
embodying her soul and really appreciating
the hard work that this Mexican American family
put into achieving such great success.
And I'm so excited for people to see just how long
she worked to achieve that,
and to see her growth and the evolution.
- So that's it.
I'm so happy that I got to interview the cast of
"Selena: The Series".
I mean it's just something I can check off
my bucket list too.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed it.
If you guys wanna take the BuzzFeed quiz
that we took with them,
you can find it in the description below.
And thanks for watching.
(throat clearing)
(singing in foreign language)
Okay, you can cut it.
(Tejano music)
- [Kid] Pero Like.