La reina is back. Kate del Castillo, TV’s antiheroine queen, talks about what to expect from the country-hopping new season of “La Reina del Sur.”
Absolutely. I mean, there’s so much work right now. When I first got to the United States, Americans they didn’t hire me because they wouldn’t like to hear my accent. So I spent a lot of money, you know, on accent coaches and this and that. And now everything has changed. And I’m very happy because now I can work much more with my own accent.
All these things make this character unique and approachable, and that’s why people relate so much with her, because she’s real. She’s an antiheroine, full of defects; she’s flawed in so many ways. That’s what I like about her. And I wish we could see more characters like her in American television, in [the] mainstream. For us Latinas it’s great because she’s not sexualized in any way — she’s just smart because she’s smart.