Carolina Cvedra knows how to tell a great story.

She's worked on documentaries like The Day I Met El Chapo and Jennifer Lopez's halftime.

And now she is the showrunner on the new docu-series airing on MSNBC and Peacock.

Leguizamo does America.

Carolina shares how she builds rapport with big names like John Leguizamo and Gate of Castillo,

how a project like this goes from concept to execution,

and challenges all of us to think more critically about the default definition of American.

Carolina, thank you so much for doing this. Oh my gosh, my absolute pleasure.

Thank you for having me.

Carolina, growing up in Chile, were you by nature a storyteller?

I think so.

And I think who gave me that gift is my mother.

So my mother was a child development educator.

And as we were growing up, for instance, my brother

and I weren't allowed to watch TV very often. But what my mom did do is something really

incredible, which is she drew a television set on a cardboard box. And then she would sit us in front of it and she would have us tell her

what stories we were seeing. Like truly developing our creative juices and it must have stuck with me

because truly there's something about wanting to tell stories that has been part of my DNA from that point forward,

for sure. I think a lot now as a parent about what is developmentally appropriate. How much did your

parents feel comfortable sharing about your departure from Chile? You couldn't help but be aware of what was going on in our country as we were, you know,

surrounded by tanks in the streets.

And whether we truly understood the conversations that were going on around us,

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