More than excited! I love this song.
Dude, everyone is so Mexican today.
I am Hiromi Kamata.
I'm directing this episode for Selena: The Series,
where we are recreating the video of "Amor Prohibido."
I've seen this video many times.
We're in the desert.
We're supposed to be in Joshua Tree.
It feels like Joshua Tree.
They shot the music video in the desert,
so we're in Valle de Guadalupe, and we're filming the music video
where she sings in front of her love
or to her love or both.
Lots of loves, lots of singin'.
The video shows these really colorful doors,
with Selena playing around with a love interest.
This is our green door.
The star of the day.
Had a long list of requests, this door here.
This green door represents…
A doorway into a new…
life, a new beginning, a new opportunity.
You know, any love story can be a gate,
you know, into an whole other universe.
That is a concept I love from the video,
and we're trying to recreate it just exactly as it was shot.
She goes like this.
Okay. This one.
I have a lot of just, like, really cool, fun menswear in this video.
We have several looks.
The most iconic one,
which is the red men's shirt and black jeans with black boots,
is shot in the green door set.
We're gonna do another one, which is the white shirt,
a typical man's white shirt,
that's tucked up with her jeans.
We have the black vest with that same shirt.
The black leather vest with black pants,
hair down, red lips.
We're basically going with every look
that she originally used.
I was worried I was going to be really hot
in the long sleeves, but because it's so… flowy,
I think I'm gonna be straight.
We don't need luck.
-Nah. -We got this. Hey.
-Picture's up! -Up!
Roll sound, roll camera.
-Rolling! -And play back!
It's not easy to really replicate
somebody who is an incredible dancer.
She used a lot of freestyle, so we really had to get into detail,
frame by frame, and really study Selena,
to the way she moved her hands to the way she moved her lips.
One of the hardest things to do
is to make it seem like it's unchoreographed,
which is what Selena used to do back then.
With something so iconic,
I don't wanna be, like, disrespectful to something
that I grew up looking up to.
I used to wait for the video to come on.
It's our last look of the day.
It's what they call the martini, kids.
'Cause we're out after this.
That's a wrap!
-We did it! -We did it!
It's a wrap!
I was excited for "Amor Prohibido."
I feel fulfilled.