Broadcast TV is ready for a Latino family. Justina Machado is here to prove it
LOS ANGELES - Justina Machado has never felt this exhausted. It's late September, just a few hours before she heads off to another three-hour rehearsal for "Dancing With the Stars," and the actress is at her home in Silver Lake fueling up on lunch when she reveals the unusual piece of equipment that has been a life saver - or rather, a feet saver - since joining the current season of the prime-time dance boot camp.
"I literally have this big caldero that you make arroz con gandules in," she says, referring to the Puerto Rican rice dish. "I can't even make any arroz con gandules in there anymore because it has become the pot for my feet. Gross, right? Every day when I come home, my routine is dunking my feet in there with ice. The first week and a half of rehearsals, forget about it - I was crying. I was like, 'Oh, what did I do?' Everything hurts me, why did I do this?'"
So, why did she do it?
For one, it was a much-needed quarantine distraction for the "One Day at a Time" star that required neither the patience of making sourdough bread nor the
