Just about 27 years after Selena hit theaters in March 1997, Jon Seda remains to be buddies with Chris Pérez, whom he portrayed within the biographical movie.
“I’m still friends with Chris. Chris is just an amazing guitarist and he’s still out there making his music. Check out his music, it’s incredible,” Seda, 53, completely informed Us Weekly previous this month whilst selling the general season of the NBC drama Los angeles Brea, which premiered on January 9.
Seda added that his revel in operating on Selena is in his center “forever” and mirrored at the “sad” truth of the venture.
“It was obviously a sad time and it’s a shame that we had to make the movie, because obviously she wasn’t here anymore,” he mentioned of the movie’s matter, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, identified mononymously as Selena.
In March 1995, Selena was once shot and killed at age 23 through her former fan membership president and boutique supervisor, Yolanda SaldÃvar. SaldÃvar, now 63, was once discovered to blame of first-degree homicide in October 1995. She is these days serving a existence sentence in a Texas jail and can transform eligible for parole in March 2025.
On the time of her demise, Selena was once married to Pérez, now 54. The duo tied the knot in 1992, 3 years after Pérez joined Selena’s band, Selena y Los Dinos.
In Selena, Seda starred reverse Jennifer Lopez, who performed the titular position.
“She just did such an incredible job as Selena and I had a great time working with her,” Seda informed Us of Lopez, 54, who earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of the past due musical icon.
When Seda and Lopez shared the display screen in Selena, Lopez had but to release her hugely a success pop profession. Her debut album, At the 6, didn’t pop out till 1999.
“She wasn’t J. Lo when I worked with her,” mentioned Seda, regarding Lopez’s widely-used nickname. “She was Jenny and she still is. But I give her credit because she had goals and said she wanted to be where she’s at today. She envisioned it, she saw it and she worked hard. She worked hard to get there. She’s definitely someone I think a lot of young women can look up to.”
Pérez, for his phase, praised Lopez’s efficiency whilst are living tweeting about his first time viewing Selena “in its entirety” in 2017. He famous that his “eyes were closed half of the time” when he attended the film’s premiere twenty years prior.
“I’ll tell you what … Jen did a great f—king job. Super proud. Will not watch the ending of the movie,” Pérez wrote on the time.
He additionally reacted to Seda’s portrayal of him, tweeting: “Wow … I was HOT! LOLOL!!!!!!”