Selena: The Series is being backed by the singer’s family; her sister, Suzette Quintanilla, is an executive producer. “Selena will always have a lasting place in music history and we feel great responsibility to do justice to her memory,” she said in a statement when the show was announced. “With this series, viewers will finally get the full history of Selena, our family, and the impact she has had on all of our lives.” (Selena was notoriously murdered at the age of 23 by her fan club president, Yolanda Saldívar.) The team of writers for the Netflix series is being helmed by Mexican-American writer Moisés Zamora, who’s also executive producing Selena: The Series. Zamora has said he’s intent on focusing on her cultural identity: Selena was born and raised in Texas, but she rose to fame by singing in Spanish, at the insistence of her father, Abraham Quintanilla, a former Mexican-American singer. “[Selena] was part of my existence as a Latino boy,” Zamora told NBC News in April 2019. “I associated her with my family and being Mexican in America. … This feels like so many journeys I see around me through my family.” Serratos, a 30-year-old actress of Mexican-Italian descent, was given the seal of approval of Selena’s father, who told the Mexican newspaper Reforma that of all the actresses they saw, Serratos was “the best.” It’s a role Serratos has been longing to take on, too. In 2015, she told MTV that she would love to play “somebody who is very famously Latina” some day, and that’s exactly what Selena, the Queen of Tejano music, affords her. Read on to see Serratos as Selena, and for more lookalikes, Nicole Richie’s 12-Year-Old Daughter Looks Just Like Her Now. The look is reminiscent of how Selena sported her hair in her teenage years, like in this video of her singing “Only in My Dream” at 15. Selena fans recall this look from her performance at the Houston Astrodome in 1994, and Serratos definitely channels the legendary Tejano star.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Those who love the 1997 Selena movie definitely remember the scene in which the singer and her dad clash over her onstage wardrobe, or lack thereof. It was the early ’90s, after all! And for more style from this era, check out Fashion Trends Only Cool ’90s Kids Will Remember.
