Hello, fellow movie friends. I'm Lily Percy, and this week I'll be speaking with Shea Serrano about the movie that changed him, Selena.

If you haven't seen it, don't worry, I'm going to be your movie guide, so you'll have all the details you need to follow along.

Growing up in Miami, my brother and I used to watch our Spanish music videos on Univision.

There was a kind of MTV Vijay, Daisy Fuentes, who would host this block of music from Latin America.

And I'll never forget the first time that I saw Selena singing Amor Prohibido on that channel. The thing that struck me

was not just how beautiful she was,

but how very much herself she was. She was this curvy,

confident Latino woman, a star in Tejano music, and for me represented everything I wanted to be

as a woman when I grew up. But I really didn't understand how big she was until her death, until she

was murdered. And that's when I really knew the Selena that was a fashion designer, that was this key

business figure in her community in Texas, and also this role model in her family.

That's when I really understood the power of Selena.

You know, sometimes I think about the things I never had.

Like, I guess I never had a normal childhood.

You know, because I finished high school by now.

Spent more time in Big Bertha than I have anywhere else.

When I was on that stage,

that was like nothing I ever felt before.

It's hard to describe.

I just had this feeling like my dreams

were the same as the dreams of all those people

who were out there in the audience. Like all

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