#KATE DEL CASTILLO SERIES#
The series focuses on the life of Teresa Mendoza, the girlfriend of a drug trafficker nicknamed El Güero. Most recently, she starred as the lead in La Reina del Sur, (The Queen of the South ), which is debuting its third season on Telemundo this October 18. Her dream role is a Marvel action hero-"a Latina heroine," she says.ĭespite the prejudice she's faced in Hollywood, the actress has landed roles in various series since making the move, including in Weeds, Grimm, CSI, and Jane the Virgin, which, fittingly, is a hilarious satire of Mexican telenovelas. "I want to do amazing shows, mainstream shows, yes, with Latinos and Latinas-even better-but not necessarily 'Latino stories.' I don't even know exactly what that means, but we have the same problems as white Americans, African Americans, and Asians, so why label it?" del Castillo says. The name Cholawood is an ironic play on Hollywood that reclaims the word chola (an offensive term used to refer to Mexicans living in the United States, often in low-income areas). That's one of the reasons I founded my production company, Cholawood Productions, because I was not getting the roles that I wanted to portray." "I still see those kinds of roles that are not okay-not always the maid, or the prostitute, or the narco, but still very stereotyped. I think we need to change the narrative from the beginning," del Castillo says.
#KATE DEL CASTILLO TV#
TV and film industry is "trying very hard" not to give Latinos stereotyped roles, "but they still screw up the whole thing." Del Castillo adds that she thinks the U.S. It's been slow," she says of the progress of Latinx representation in Hollywood. TV and film industry, del Castillo was faced with another issue that has long plagued Latinx actors: She was seen as the token Latina, and more often than not, offered clichéd or stereotyped roles. "I think we need to change the narrative from the beginning."Īnd yet, in attempting to tap into the U.S. because I thought it would give me better opportunities-and I was right."
"So that's why I came to the United States I started shooting this TV series for PBS called A merican Family.
So I was getting bored, and I wanted to do other things, but in my country, I didn't get those opportunities, unfortunately. But then, when you are a leading person in telenovelas, you kind of do the same thing, only the guy you kiss changes. I loved doing them I did probably nine or 10. "When I started working, Mexican cinema wasn't that great, so our only option was telenovelas. market, where she could either epically flop or make it big. Like many Latinx actors and creatives, del Castillo-whose father is a well-known Mexican actor-was eventually confronted with a choice: Either settle for a career doing low-budget productions in her home country while attempting to improve the state of its industry, or cross over to the U.S. Kate del Castillo spent more than a decade at the top of the Mexican entertainment industry she was the star of some of the greatest telenovelas and considered TV royalty in all of Latin America.
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