‘Blockbuster’s Olga Merediz On Who Could Play Connie’s Husband & The Cast’s ‘Rare’ Chemistry (Exclusive)

“I deliberation radical are yearning for transportation and community, and that’s what the amusement is about. It’s going to marque you laughter truthful hard, but it besides has a batch of heart. That’s portion of the crushed I did it,” Blockbuster prima Olga Merediz told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY.

Olga stars arsenic Connie Serrano, the lovable parent fig to the Blockbuster employees. Olga admitted that she loves however “frank and precise blunt” Connie is arsenic well. “People these days, we’re ever benignant of hiding our opinions and our feelings. We don’t privation to wounded anybody’s feelings, truthful to person idiosyncratic similar Connie who conscionable speaks her caput was conscionable precise charismatic to me,” she continued. “Also, moving with Vanessa Ramos who did Brooklyn Nine-Nine and then Superstore, and past of people moving with Randall Park and Melissa Fumero. I conscionable work the scenes and they were hilarious, and I person a weakness for comedy.”

Olga Merediz with Melissa Fumero successful ‘Blockbuster.’ (Netflix)

The acting seasoned stars alongside Randall, Melissa, Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, and much successful the ensemble series. Olga noted it was “rare” to person specified effortless chemistry amongst the cast.

“We’re each from antithetic backgrounds, each antithetic ages, and we’re similar a family,” Olga said. “We had a blast connected set. Comedy is precise quick, and we changeable it fast. We benignant of had to go a household successful bid to sprout these scenes,” the histrion explained. “We were each thrilled to beryllium doing this, and we each get along. In the amusement itself, we’re precise progressive successful each other’s lives, possibly a small excessively much. That’s portion of the story. It was fantastic moving with these actors, immoderate of them precise young similar Madeleine Arthur, Tyler Alvarez, those 2 cutie patooties. They’re truthful cute and a batch of my scenes were with them. There was a batch to thatch each other. They taught maine a batch astir technology. My generation, we’re conscionable truthful bad, but they would travel to maine for beingness wisdom. So it was a bully match.”

The archetypal play ended with Timmy saying he’s acceptable to springiness up Blockbuster. The past lasting store has gone done its ups and down, but this infinitesimal seemed a spot much definitive. “I don’t deliberation anybody successful that crew, successful that family, the employees, I don’t deliberation they’re going to respond precise kindly to that, particularly Connie,” Olga admitted. “She’s a large instrumentality of Timmy. She loves him. She reveres him. I deliberation she’s going to combat that, truthful we’ll spot what happens.”

Olga Merediz with Tyler Alvarez and Madeleine Arthur. (Netflix)

If the amusement were to get a play 2, Olga wants to spot Connie’s hubby popular up. “There’s a fewer radical that could bash it. Jimmy Smits, maybe. George Lopez,” she quipped astir who could play her onscreen hubby.

Olga was besides the singing dependable for Abuela Alma successful the critically-acclaimed Disney film Encanto, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The histrion opened up astir however she feels astir the authorities of Latinx practice successful Hollywood aft the occurrence of the film.

“I conscionable consciousness similar — yet — we are being represented. It’s resonating with everybody, not conscionable the Latinx community, but everybody due to the fact that these are cosmopolitan stories,” Olga told HollywoodLife. “It’s stories astir families, astir children, it’s everybody’s stories. I person travel afloat ellipse again with Encanto being portion of the film, being fortunate capable to beryllium the singing dependable of the Abuela Alma character, and past having it done present successful LA astatine the Hollywood Bowl coming up precise soon. It conscionable feels similar I’ve travel afloat circle, precise overmuch like In The Heights wherever I did off-Broadway, connected Broadway, and past I was fortunate capable to beryllium successful the film. I’m conscionable blessed to beryllium portion of that full speech and person radical spot themselves connected surface similar that. It’s precise special.”

Olga Merediz arsenic Connie. (Netflix)

There person been murmurs astir a imaginable Encanto sequel. “Hey, I knew thing astir it, truthful you’re telling maine for the archetypal time,” Olga admitted. “You cognize what? I’m going to person to inquire these radical and get the scoop. If I get the scoop, you’ll beryllium the archetypal to know.”