Teresa Mendoza

And then again, most recently, following the very public fallout of her meeting with former cartel leader Javier Guzman El Chapo.

Part of that rebuilding includes Kate's return to Telemundo's La Reina del Sur, where she plays her favorite anti-hero, Teresa Mendoza.

More than 10 years have passed since the show's original release, and we talk about the lessons Kate has learned in that time, her other projects, including her production company, Chola Wood, and her new Peacock dark comedy, Armas de Mujer, about four women who band together after the police arrest their husbands for being tied to the same criminal organization.

And of course, her raw insights on messing up, living with the consequences, and how she learned to trust her gut.

You know, I can play whatever.

Why label people from where they come from? You know, unless it was an amazing, I could be, you know, a heroine, a Latina heroine in a Marvel movie for, I'm just thinking out loud, you know, something like that.

And it's hard to find something like, it was hard for me to find something like La Reina del Sur, you know, like Teresa Mendoza, this amazing character of this woman living in a, men's world and having to think and strategize without sexualizing her.

So it's a lot of things.