Fate: The Winx Saga's Paulina Chávez Explains Why Flora Is So Important to the Latino Community

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Fate: The Winx Saga Cast Dishes connected Returning for Season 2

Fate: The Winx Saga inactive has plentifulness of magic up its sleeve.

On play 2 of the Netflix teen drama, much magical mischief is afoot—and a precise important quality is on for the ride.

The 2nd play features the highly-anticipated accomplishment of Flora, played by Paulina Chávez, a beloved quality from Winx Club, the Nickelodeon animated bid connected which The Winx Saga is based. That being said, Flora did not look successful play one. 

Some fans accused the bid of whitewashing aft the emergence of a caller quality named Terra, played by Eliot Salt, seemed to regenerate Latina fairy Flora.

In taking connected the role, Chávez knew expectations were high—especially fixed what Flora's practice means. 

"I felt a batch of support, actually," Chávez exclusively told E! News astir joining the series. "Yes, it was nerve-racking. But a batch of radical were excited. I was excited."

In fact, the absorption online adjacent made it to Chávez, who noted that she doesn't "read tweets."

"But my ma recovered 1 and idiosyncratic tweeted, ‘The miss who's playing Flora is really Latina, we won,'" she continued. "I retrieve the archetypal clip I saw that I started to outcry a small spot due to the fact that it means thing to people, it truly does to the Latino community."

With each of that value connected her shoulders, however, Chávez inactive managed to admit the moment.

"I'm a miss from El Paso, Texas and I ended up shooting an astonishing bid successful Ireland," she marveled. "It's mind-blowing."

In play two, fairies at Alfea College commencement to spell missing, which motivates the radical to topple headmistress Rosalind (Miranda Richardson) arsenic the communicative evolves successful caller and darkly unexpected ways. 

But don't conscionable instrumentality it from us.

"There's enactment and adventure. There is thing successful it for everyone," Hannah van der Westhuysen, who plays Stella, teased. "You volition consciousness seen, you volition person a laughter and you whitethorn adjacent person a cry."

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The season also showcases the improvement of The Winx Saga's core characters, arsenic they hone their powers and harness their afloat supernatural potential.

"We've seen these young women successful play one," Precious Mustapha, who plays Aisha, said, "and we're present watching them turn and go strong, autarkic women successful play two."

But if that's not capable of an endorsement, conscionable perceive to Abigail Cowen, who plays Bloom.

"Emotional teenagers doing magic," she said. "Who does not privation to spot that?"

The 2nd play of Fate: The Winx Saga is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.

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