ADIOS VIDA
n a soundstage in California’s San Fernando Valley, drag kings clad as hypermasculine characters including Danny Trejo’s Machete and Antonio Banderas’s El Mariachi sing and dance to a song about machismo expressly written for the scene they’re shooting for the history-making Starz series . Creator and showrunner Tanya Saracho, who’s directing the episode, buoyantly runs back and forth between the set and the’s queer Latinx story that takes on notions of chosen family and gentrification in Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights neighborhood, watches the drag king scene unfold on the monitor. Beside her are two of the show’s executive producers—Stephanie Langhoff and Robin Schwartz.
