“Mexico is producing a lot of great things but it’s difficult,” she said. “Even when you are well-known and working constantly it’s a different kind of financial situation than the one you can have here.”
Alice Braga was the anchor of one of the few — if not the only — primetime network dramas with a Latina as the lead.
Playing drug queenpin Teresa Mendoza in “Queen of the South” is Braga’s first foray into television.
Co-showrunner Benjamin Lobato chalks up the emphasis on narco stories to the prevalence of media coverage of the issue.
Alice Braga will fight ’till she dies in Season 2 of the USA Network series.
The USA drama feels too familiar to breakout, but “Queen of the South” could have a future if it embraces its wild side.
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