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HBO's Los Espookys Stars Tease Season 2 Secrets
On Los Espookys, quality pageants are a substance of beingness and death.
Season 2 of the esoteric, sharply comic HBO Max comedy, premiering Sept. 16, finds Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco) haunted by the shade of a erstwhile Miss Nuestra Belleza Latina quality queen, which serves arsenic a catalyst for exploring the campy, glitzy satellite of pageant culture.
For creators Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega and Fred Armisen, the introspection of the pageant satellite was approached with large reverence, arsenic Torres explained successful an exclusive speech with E! News, "I don't cognize if it's a Central America happening oregon not, but quality pageants were ever a happening precise akin to sports."
Torres, who besides stars connected Los Espookys arsenic the hilariously eccentric Andrés, revealed that, successful summation to being an intrigued spectator, helium has a familial transportation to the satellite of pageants.
"One year, I retrieve my relative was successful a quality pageant representing 1 of the states of El Salvador and it was truthful weird," Torres said. "It was each truthful strange. It's specified a visually affluent happening to consume."
Armisen said the pageant satellite was the cleanable playground for Los Espookys to thrive in, saying "It's truthful presentational. There's thing subtle astir it."
In caller years, questions person arisen astir the dated, superficial quality of pageants—but Torres argued not overmuch has changed.
"Lately there's been this displacement of, like, ‘It's besides astir their minds and stuff,'" helium said. "And it's like, ‘Sure, but the prerequisite is that they person to beryllium conventionally beautiful.'"
But it's precisely that facet that appealed to Torres.
"It's truthful successful your look that it's really much honorable than truthful galore different things," helium argued. "If you truly deliberation astir it, a quality pageant is nary antithetic than TikTok oregon Instagram. That's similar astir people's calling card. And then they'll perceive to you."
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As for however they decided to spot Renaldo wrong the pageant world, Fabrega said it each related backmost to his ain consciousness of self.
"Once we recovered it, we were like, ‘Why would Renaldo emotion quality pageants?,'" she said. "There's that country with him and Andrés wherever helium explains, ‘People presumption [the contestants] and deliberation they cognize them based connected however they look, and they bash that to me, too.'"
All six episodes of Los Espookys play 2 are disposable to watercourse Sept. 16 connected HBO Max.
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