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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 6 august 2018
New FX series chance to tell Latino stories from inside out

By BETH HARRIS to grow up in a functional
Associated Press family, I don't know what
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) it's like to grow up in a sup-
— The co-creator of a portive family," James said.
new series featuring Latino "But I do know that I have
characters who are violent these stories that I have to
criminals is at its core about tell and this damage inside
a family, albeit a damaged me that I have to get out."
one that lives outside the James noted that many of
parameters of normal soci- the people working in front
ety. of and behind the camera
Kurt Sutter told a TV crit- on the show grew up in
ics meeting on Friday that poverty amid violence and
he's "really proud to have incarceration.
a brown cast" in "Mayans "This is the first time we get
M.C.," which debuts Sept. 4 to tell our own stories from
on FX. the inside out, which is in-
At the time same, Sutter credibly important to me,"
said he doesn't bow to out- he said. "I don't want any
side pressure that many of nice people ... to tell me I
the Latino characters are can't tell my story."
criminals. Among the cast is Edward
"The stories that I like to tell Edward James Olmos participates in the "Mayans M.C." panel during the FX Television Critics James Olmos, Danny Pino,
and the characters I like to Association Summer Press Tour, Aug. 3, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. JD Pardo, and Emilio Rive-
create are damaged," he Associated Press ra, who was in "Sons of An-
said. "I never write these archy."
guys or these women from The show picks up 2½ years "People didn't show up for said he grew up in a world Olmos starred in the PBS
the point of view of them after the events of Sutter's 'Sons' because it was about of gangs and violence, series "American Family"
being dangerous or bad. "Sons of Anarchy" and fo- (expletive) outlaws," Sutter and he sees the show as a that ran from 2002-04 and
I write them from the idea cuses on that series' rivals- said. "It was about a (exple- chance to tell Latino stories was the first broadcast TV
that they're human beings turned-allies, the Mayans tive) family." from personal experience. drama featuring a mostly
with complex feelings." Motorcycle Club. Co-creator Elgin James "I don't know what it's like Latino cast.q