LosEspookys: anafabregagood explains the method behind her character’s madness
Not that the 27-year-old wasn’t cautious as she began her comedy career. Initially interested in finance, the Arizona native actually moved to New York City to study economics. After graduating from Fordham University, she went to work at the credit-risk-management company for which she had interned during college. A year into the job, she began going to open-mic nights.
Fabrega’s stamp can be found throughout the show, as the horror troupe stages an exorcism , creates a haunted house, and fakes the abduction of a U.S. ambassador. But it’s felt most strongly, of course, in her goofy alter ego, who does eccentric things like rejecting a handsome online suitor because he doesn’t look like his cartoon-prince avatar. “I really like characters who feel kind of lost and sort of slapstick-y in a Buster Keaton way,” the comedian said.
Fabrega also couldn’t resist poking fun at her American-accented Spanish. Though Spanish is the Scottsdale native’s first language—her parents are from Panama, and she visited family there every summer—she spoke English in school. So Tati’s manner of speaking is blamed on two weeks she spent in Minnesota. “As the series shot, my Spanish got stronger, and I wonder if people will pick up on the different hints of my accent—or lack of accent—throughout the show,” she said.
When it came to the other main characters’ development, Fabrega and Torres—whose moody but well-dressed Andrés is under pressure to marry his narcissistic boyfriend, Juan Carlos, and is also possessed by a spirit who insists he screen—found Velasco and Ciangherotti’s input invaluable.
Fittingly, the six-part series ends with Tati getting another unexpected job opportunity. As for Fabrega’s future? While she hopesgets picked up for another season—she wants to film some of it in Chile’s Atacama Desert—she has no precise employment plans beyond that. Tati would certainly be able to relate.
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