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Remix: Actress Aimee Carrero Embraces Her Weird, and We Love Her for It

Latina to Latina

LWC Studios

Latinas, Lantiguawilliams, 519788, Aliciamenendez, Society & Culture, Latinos, Entrepreneurship, News, Hispanics, Entertainment News, Business

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

She says growing up Latina in Miami gave her the cojones to face life in Hollywood. Her career so far, including roles in Disney Channel’s Elena of Avalor, FX’s The Americans and Freeform’s Young & Hungry is ample proof of that. Aimee tells Alicia that being Latina also gave her the confidence to know that she deserves to be in the room. She opens up about wrestling with imposter syndrome, learning to say no, and the “big trap” of feeling like you’ve made it. Follow Aimee on Twitter and IG @aimeecarrero. If you loved this episode, listen to Angelique Cabral, Mishel Prada and Gina Torres for more on the art of acting and navigating Hollywood. Show your love and become a Latina to Latina Patreon supporter!

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0:00.0

So happy to share another specially curated batch of episodes featuring some of the inspiring women we've had on the show.

0:11.6

Hello there. Welcome back to Latina to Latina. On this podcast, I talk with Latinas about how they got to be so amazing.

0:21.2

You've heard Amy Carrero's voice, most recently as Shira, Princess of Power, in the new Netflix animated series, or as Elena of Avalour, Disney's first Latina princess.

0:33.3

She recently wrapped a five-year run on the sitcom Young and Hungry.

0:37.3

And now she's doing a thing that for most of us is hard to do.

0:41.1

She's carefully considering what's next.

0:51.6

Amy Kuro, you're a terrible celebrity.

0:53.9

You, like, drove yourself to the studio. Well, first of all,

0:57.2

I drove myself and then proceeded to like negate all of my like normal behavior when there was a huge

1:02.6

wasp that landed on my shoulder and I made an ass of myself in front of a fellow Latino actress

1:09.7

who I've never met before.

1:28.0

So now that's her only experience with me. It's good that means if you're ever in the same room to reach, she'd be like, I got it. Don't worry. She's going to go to all her other friends. Like, Amy's weird. It's also Miami girl. It was not a was a was a beetle. I know. It was absolutely a beetle. But it flew. Do beetles fly? I'm smart.

1:30.3

They don't learn that in Jersey either. I know. I don't know what happened. But anyway, so I guess I made an entrance. Something rocked my world, which is I had known that you graduated from FIU in 2008. So I'd always done the math on your age predicated on that without realizing

1:45.8

that you are a weirdo who graduated in two years. Two years. Why would you do that? Because I was

1:52.1

desperate to come to L.A. and be an actress. But my parents are, you know, we don't have any

1:59.8

artists in my family at all.

2:01.3

So nobody in my family ever made a dollar really in performance.

2:05.6

So my parents said, if you want us to help you move to L.A.

2:09.8

aka some money, honey, you have to get a degree in something that's not acting.

2:15.2

So I was like, got it.

2:17.2

So I studied international relations at

2:20.5

FIU, go panders. And I was thankful enough or lucky enough to not have to have a job at the time.

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