Liza Colón-Zayas might have simply received her first Emmy for Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence for her function as Tina in FX‘s streaming collection The Bear, however the star has been gracing TV screens for years in roles throughout reveals like Regulation & Order: SVU, David Makes Man, In Therapy, New York Undercover, and Third Watch to call just a few.
When TV Insider caught up with the star for The Bear‘s Season 3 launch, she walked down reminiscence lane, providing some perception and behind-the-scenes particulars concerning the roles that led to her success as Tina within the acclaimed kitchen drama. Amongst one of many first on this record of reminiscences is SVU, wherein she’s appeared 3 times.
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Within the first episode, she recollects enjoying a maid who stumbles throughout against the law scene. “I ready for that by trying on the most grotesque, terrible issues the interwebs has to supply so I may have these photographs in my mind,” Colón-Zayas says of her first function on the crime hit. She additionally had a two-episode run as Dolores Rodriguez, a lady whose son has “been lacking for 10 years and she or he has by no means moved or modified something.”
“That was a tough one,” Colón-Zayas admits, “However Mariska Hargitay is my hero.”
As Colón-Zayas continues to replicate on roles within the video above, she delves into the tales behind her casting in New York Undercover, the place she remembers, “Dick Wolf was there, and through my audition, there was a mouse operating forwards and backwards through the scene, and in some way we simply rolled with it.”
Relating to her casting in The Bear, Colón-Zayas admits she was shocked she landed the now Emmy-winning function. “It actually was a shocker as a result of I used to be solid off a self-tape,” she says. “[I] didn’t know the script. I didn’t get the script. So I simply received these two scenes. And it’s that factor that you simply by no means know who’s watching.”
In keeping with Colón-Zayas, the function was supposedly initially written for a person, however individuals behind the scenes fought to solid her within the half. Nonetheless, she wasn’t positive if many individuals would tune in when it first debuted, however “they did, and it’s similar to wildfire,” Colón-Zayas exclaims.
See her full profession rewind above, and don’t miss her award-winning efficiency in The Bear.
FX’s The Bear, Streaming now, Hulu
