Apr 27, 2021
Moisés Zamora, creator of Netflix's Selena: The
Series about the legendary singer, talks to guest host Lee
Jessup about why it was important for this show to have a writers
room primarily made up of Mexican American voices. "All of the
writers I hired [for Selena] were Latinx because it was
important for the storytelling… and within that Latinx monolith,
there's a lot of diversity, and so I was really proud to be able to
cultivate those sort of relationships with those writers and
getting to know them and realizing there's so many more stories to
tell, from the Latin American, Indigenous, Afro-Latinx point of
view."
Moisés takes us through his varied writing career, starting
with writing novels in Spanish, working in advertising and
marketing, to landing his first TV job on American
Crime. "I don't think writing is, in any form, wasted. So if a
pilot doesn't give you the results that you wanted, it doesn't
matter! It just starts developing a layer of talent on top of
another layer of talent, and without that pilot, maybe it doesn't
lead to another project, so keep your mind open to always
growing."
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