So the second I read the script I was like, “Wow! I love this scene.”
I will say that I’ve been fortunate with Raising Hope, for example: they did things for me that were cool and gave my character a little chance to be different. Not only because of playing a maid - normally you’re given one or two lines. Like it was everything I ever wanted in terms of doing a part but never really given the opportunity. Let me know how you are with the Spanish.”īut I read the script and there was no Spanish! As a matter of fact, it was actually super crazy and awesome. So I was just coming off of another audition where they kind of threw Spanish at me, and I didn’t know, so then my manager brought me The Mick and said, “Well, she’s a Latina maid in the house. It was just like, “Here’s another audition.” And I’d just come off another audition where I speak Spanish - I mean I can understand it better than I can speak it, but I really can’t speak it and I never try to go under the guise to whomever is going to hire me that I’m somehow super fluent, you know? Like a telenovela-fluent. The Mick was presented to me not in any way special. On Auditioning for Latino Roles When You’re Not Fluent In Spanish I tend to gravitate to watching people’s subtleties and how they can make people laugh. I have such a girl crush on Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, just how funny they are. And he was also so funny in his subtlety. It wasn’t just this pressing thing that there was a Latino on TV, but I guess I saw that somebody was there. And I loved reading about it, and what I really loved was hearing about all the things Desi Arnaz came up with. I just liked her timing and always just thought she was so funny, even decades later that show still holds up. I Love Lucy-I would watch those marathons all the time. I was obsessed and I still love Lucille Ball. Remezcla caught up with Jimenez to talk about landing The Mick, flipping the Latina maid archetype on its head, and doting on her “cat-dogs.” Check out some highlights from our chat below. Just look at the show’s second episode where we see her let loose on the dance floor after Mickey slips some drugs in her new BFF’s drink. Or in the latest episode, where she finds time while looking for the Pemberton kids at a party to give a bongo-filled rendition of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” It’s the kind of three-dimensional and all-out hilarious role Jimenez has always longed to play. You see, Alba is not your average “Latina maid in a sitcom.” Not only do her own misadventures get equal time in each episode, but she’s never a punchline. Best-known for her work as Rosa on Raising Hope and Blanca in Last Man Standing, the Cali-born actress is having a great time chewing into this meaty role.
Thankfully she has some help in the Pemberton’s actual help: Alba, their maid, played by Carla Jimenez.īut that description alone doesn’t do justice to what The Mick creators Dave and John Chernin have gifted Jimenez. And while day-drinking and devil-may-care Mickey loves nothing more than to live in her niece and nephews’ mansion, she’s not quite adept at the whole parenting thing. The affluent Pembertons, who are on the run from the law after being accused of fraud and tax evasion, have left their three spoiled children in the care of Olson’s Mickey. Fox’s new sitcom The Mick, starring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s very funny Kaitlin Olson, takes place in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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