Shea Serrano shares his Latino movie Mount Rushmore and other things
LOS ANGELES — Shea Serrano is a busy man.
In addition to being a four-time New York Times bestselling author, the San Antonio native is also the creator and showrunner of “Primo,” the critically beloved sitcom that premiered on Amazon Freevee on May 19. Next month, Hulu will release “Miguel Wants to Fight,” a coming-of-age comedy that Serrano co-wrote with Jason Concepcion.
On July 19, Serrano self-published “Action Hero Scouting Report,” which is exactly what it sounds like — 27 action heroes are graded on six categories and given an action hero score. We caught up with the multi-hyphenate on the heels of this release to talk sports, television and movies, the strike by members of the Writers Guild of America and other things.
The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
Q: I’ll start with an easy one. Which of these teams is the most Latino team and why: the Dallas Cowboys, the Las Vegas Raiders, the Los Angeles Dodgers or the San Antonio Spurs?
A: Oh, man. You know who I thought was going to be in there? The San Diego Padres.
Q: Oh, really? Interesting.
A: Yeah, I’m surprised the Padres aren’t on that list, mainly because any time I post a picture of food that I’ve picked up in San Antonio — it’s Tex-Mex here, it’s my favorite type of food — with the caption “Mexicans are perfect,” I don’t know how it gets to them, but Padres Twitter goes nuts. They
