Selena

And I, I, I get where she's coming from.

It's like Selena.

Tell, what's that?

Selena the, um, the pop star from Texas whose president of her fan club killed her.

Oh.

Yeah.

Was it Selena? Is that her name?

Yeah, that's her name, Selena.

A Mexican-American mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.

Cast, we have Edward James Olmos as Montoya Santana, better known as Santana, William Forsythe as JD, Pepe Serna as Mundo, Daniel A. Harrow as Huera, Panchito Gomez as Young Montoya Santana, Steve Wilcox as Young JD, Richard Coca as Young Mundo, Sal Lopez as Pedro Santana, Vera Montes as Esperanza Santana, Kari Hiroyuki Tagawa as El Hapo, Domingo Ambriz as Pie Face, Danny De La Paz as Puppet, daniel villarreal as little puppet jacob vargas as paulito and evelina fernandez as julie and this film was released march 13 1992 and a little interesting tidbit about the cast Edward James Olmos and Panchito Gomez also played a younger and older version of each other in the Selena movie where they both played Abraham Quintanilla and also Jacob Vargas who played Paulito in this movie played AB Quintanilla in Selena as well.

I recognize the pops.

Yeah, definitely look familiar

What was it like before and what was it like this time?

Okay.

So around the time that I first saw Selena as a kid and... being the cinephile that I am.

Once I found out that Edward James Olmos directed that movie and I went down this rabbit hole at a very young age about Edward James Olmos and like looking into things he had done and you know some of his other works and I was just super interested in him as a actor and director so I came across American Mean so I saw it pretty young um And I remember being fascinated by the culture and all of the lore behind the movie because when I had first seen it, I was just so taken aback because it was the first time, because I've never seen Lockdown, but this was the first time I saw a movie that I felt really just... no holds barred, gave it to you like raw about what the gang and prison culture was really like without any sugarcoating.