“Selena’s music and legacy mean everything to me,” says Noemi Gonzalez.The up-and-coming Mexican-American actress landed the role of a lifetime, cast as the late Tex-Mex icon’s sister Suzette Quintanilla in Netflix‘s Selena: The Series (streaming on Netflix Dec.
4). “I know how much [Selena] shaped me and influenced me as a woman, as an actress, as a professional, and now as a musician.”In a male-dominated Tejano and regional Mexican music scene, Selena was one of the few women able to achieve stardom.
She achieved this feat in style with bedazzled bustiers and disco-inspired bodysuits that hugged her curves, earning her the nickname “Mexican Madonna.”Selena was murdered in March 1995, but the queer Latinx community continues to gravitate.