Month: June 2021

The mere existence of “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” — a sequel to the 2017 movie, adding “Wife’s” to the title — suggests that action-comedy enjoyed a long shelf-life, which is clearly the hope for its equally disposable sequel. An expanded role for Salma Hayek is the newish wrinkle here, although that’s hardly cause for an

If there’s one thing you can’t accuse Roberto Larios of being, it’s lazy. The evidence stretches back to when he was about 13 years old. At the time, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Sweetest Day — a holiday celebrated in the Midwest, including his native Chicago — meant working in his mother’s flower shop to

As a college student, Claudia Lyon didn’t know what a casting director was, let alone that one day she would be the head of casting at one of the largest networks in the country. Lyon grew up in New York, navigating her childhood in a family with roots in Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago and South

A disturbing pattern led Gloria Calderón Kellett to reimagine her role in Hollywood and become one of the leading voices calling for improved Latino representation. Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Calderón Kellett would come home from school and watch “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” while her grandmother would sew

Kase Peña wants to make sure the facts are clear so that Bronx historians don’t come after her: Though her heart belongs to the Bronx, it’s a little more complicated than that. “I was born in Manhattan. My parents are from the Dominican Republic. I lived the first nine years of my life in Manhattan,

Alan Luna makes his living putting people on the big and small screens, but growing up, he never saw someone who looked like his mother — a woman of indigenous Mexican descent who is one of the most beautiful and giving people he knows, her son says — on either. As a casting director, people

You can thank Netflix executive Carolina Garcia for helping bring shows like “Stranger Things” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” to the streaming screen, but everyone else can thank Jack Bauer for Carolina Garcia. Born in Argentina and raised in Claremont, California, Garcia was always a natural performer. She started dancing when she was 4 years