Hiya, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast!
I’m Valerie Advanced, an affiliate editor and movie author at Deadline. In the present day I’m chatting with Mayan Lopez, co-creator, author, co-executive producer and star of the NBC comedy collection Lopez vs. Lopez alongside George Lopez and Selenis Leyva, which is able to return for its second season on April 2.
She conceptualized the collection from her TikTok content material, which she used as a inventive outlet throughout the pandemic. She portrays a fictional model of herself, a contemporary Gen Z daughter working to rebuild her dysfunctional relationship along with her old-school Latino father.
Lopez made her tv debut in season 6 of the George Lopez present in an episode titled George Rocks to the Max and Will get Diss-Band-ed. Later, she acquired intensive coaching on the Conservatory Program at Second Metropolis in addition to the Columbia School Comedy Writing and Efficiency Program in Chicago. Lopez honed her improv abilities whereas performing with varied improv troupes late at evening at Second Metropolis after the Major Stage reveals and did voiceover work for the native Chicago and regional Midwest market.
Lopez serves as an envoy for the Nationwide Alliance of Psychological Sickness, the nation’s largest grassroots psychological well being group. By utilizing her voice and platform, Lopez empowers Era Z and Millennials to talk up and take motion on the subject of their very own psychological well being. She additionally continues to help the LGBTQ+ group and this spring might be seen as a visitor decide on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Her further credit embrace Good-looking: A Netflix Homicide Thriller, Different Folks, Jersey, Mr. Troop Mother.
On this episode Lopez and I talk about rising up with a well-known mother or father, the best way to flip household dynamics into comedy, and advocating for psychological well being sources.
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