Where Art MeetsMedicine

was when I saw the “Selena” movie with Jennifer Lopez. There was a quick scene at the beginning in El Paso, which was something I had never seen before, the place I lived on screen. How important is it to you to make sure that there is representation of the community?

Al

I’ve seen a lot of movies where they don’t even acknowledge the region or they tell the audience it’s somewhere else. We want to get the real thing because it comes from a real place and the more real it is, the more people believe it. When we started to shoot for the series, we actually shot in Juarez and that was very cool for me. I’ve seen hundreds of films where they portrayed the border that we’re living in and it’s nothing like a real thing.