Primo — which premieres Friday — follows Rafa, a teen making his way through high school and a home life that he shares with his single mother and five uncles. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Primo NowStreaming Amazon TV SouthTexas SheaSerrano
Can your real uncles tell which character is supposed to represent them in the series?
Yeah, we did a screening for the family a couple of weeks ago. It's the first time that they got to see it. Immediately, they were like,"OK, that's my character. Cool." They loved it. They were really into it. They were super excited about how handsome all of the actors [portraying them] were.Yeah, it was super helpful. You don't realize that when you start pitching stuff. If you and I were talking, we'd be like,"We have a bunch of uncles and aunts.
I don't know about other writers' rooms, but I know we [had Latinos] in ours. We were like,"We have to have Latinos and Blacks and Asians in there." Mike was the only white person in the room, which is always really funny because those are the only writers' rooms that I've ever been in. You talk to people and they're like,"I've never been in a room that looked like this before.
Were you at all disappointed that the show wasn't shot in San Antonio, I'm assuming because of incentives?was shot]. At this particular moment, there's no infrastructure in San Antonio. We needed stages to shoot on. We needed to bring all the crew down and put them all up. I was hoping that it would happen, but it just wasn't feasible.
What do you think is going on with so many Latino-centric series getting canceled these days after one or two seasons? In my opinion, shows like
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