Where Is the Cast of Tortilla Soup Now?

More than 20 years later, “Tortilla Soup” has develop into a Latinx traditional. It’s beloved for its heat and humorous portrayal of a Mexican-American household in Los Angeles — with nary a drug vendor or maid in sight. The Naranjos are solidly center class, personal companies, and make real-estate offers, and their troubles are the primary human ones — tips on how to discover love, success, and that means. Héctor Elizondo’s powerful and loving patriarch, Martin, anchors the movie, a widowed chef with three grown daughters. He reveals his love by meals — with obligatory and eventful household dinners. This optimistic illustration of our group is furthered by there being so many daughters. In the Naranjo ladies, we see a variety of Latinas: there’s the spiritual one, the formidable one, and the free-spirited one. And over the course of the movie, all of them buck these sorts, exhibiting Latinas as greater than any single stereotype and simply as dynamic as anybody else.

Of course, some issues would most likely be completely different if “Tortilla Soup” have been made in the present day. None of the central, Mexican-American household is performed by Mexican or Chicanx actors — one thing that appears like a slight when there have been 4 roles to fill! Thankfully, Constance Marie is representing for Chicanas all over the place as the neighbor/secret love curiosity, however she should not must do it alone. In addition, there’s not precisely loads of racial variety, and it could have been extra correct and attention-grabbing to see a variety of our group’s colours (and points with colorism) play out on this virtually totally Latinx solid.

But there isn’t any doubt “Tortilla Soup” celebrates the tradition, casting our meals as a central character, identical to it’s in lots of of our properties. And that is why we’re nonetheless revisiting this movie with all its pleasure and imperfections all these years later. So be a part of me in catching up with the solid of “Tortilla Soup,” the place they got here from, and the place they went.