We are just filled with love on this one. Today Constance Marie joins us on the mic. You Might Know Her From Selena, George Lopez, Undone, My Family/Mi Familia, American Family, Switched at Birth, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, Puss in Boots, and the new Amazon series With Love. We just had a ball with Constance talking about her charming new series With Love, which features a predominantly Latinx cast and queer storylines. Plus we get into her beginnings as a break dancer on tour with David Bowie (and in films like Breakin’ 2), and donning the now iconic wig to play Marcella Quintanilla in the Selena biopic...despite being Jennifer Lopez’s peer. We also got to talk about being part of landmark projects for Latinx folks, learning American Sign Language for her role in Switched at Birth, and being animated in Undone. This one was a total delight. Be careful spinning on your heads on cardboard, babes! 

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Discussed this week: 

The Gossip Girl reboot is deranged (Todd Almond is maybe playing Jordan Roth?)

Broadwayworld Message boards: Mandy Patikin and Toni Colette in The Wild Party

Michael Schulman’s profile of Jeremy Strong in the New Yorker 

Jessica Chastain tweeting on behalf of Aaron Sorkin (eyeroll) / Anne Hathaway on Instagram

We WILL defend Faye Dunaway til the day we die (change the best picture winner)

New Amazon series, With Love created by Gloria Calderón Kellett

Danced with David Bowie and Peter Frampton in Glass Spider Tour (choreographed by Toni Basil)

Dance nickname was “Speedy” 

Danced in music videos for Cher, Prince, Belinda Carlisle

HOLY SHIT Constance in the Toni Basil skis while Bowie sings 

La La La Human Steps: Canadian dance troupe 

Played Marcella Quintanilla Selena’s mom in the biopic Selena (1997)

Constance in the wig and glasses as Marcella

“Washing Machine” scene in Selena 

Gregory Nava directed My Family/Mi Familia (1995), Selena (1996), American Family (2002)

6 seasons as Angie on the ABC sitcom George Lopez

5 seasons as Regina on  Switched at Birth, a show that required she learn ASL (had to stop at a certain point because she had permanent nerve damage)

New Amazon series, Undone uses rotoscope animation (as seen in Scanner Darkly)

Back to the Beach with Frankie and Annette / Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo

Went out with Michael J. Fox in Spin City and he said YES wear your heels

Voiced a human in Puss & Boots

You played a cop and a bartender on the soap Santa Barbera

Punk’d (he remained calm unlike Frankie Muniz or Hilary Duff)

You played paternal aunt to the Menendez brothers in the NBC anthology, Law & Order: True Crime. Lyle was the hot one.

Raquel Welch played Constance’s mom in the 2001 dramedy, Tortilla Soup. Jenny Gago played her mom in My Family/Mi Familia

Union Square which suffered from “The Single Guy curse” 

Her real name is Constance Marie Lopez but she dropped the Lopez because it’s been “hogged up”