![]() From rags-to-riches narratives hot love affairs with multiple lovers, sticky family politics, and evil villains waiting around the corner, Velvet is incredibly dramatic and entertaining. A love story taking place in a clothing empire, Velvet is doing a lot, as you'd expect from a telenovela. If you live in Spain, or perhaps are just an avid telenovela watcher, you are sure to have stumbled upon this title. Silvestre matches this tone perfectly, embodying a character - all high flaws and imperfections - with beautiful dignity. Sense8 is forward-thinking, pushing any notions of shame and guilt to the wayside. How he is outspoken and forward, and yet at times more hesitant and held back. ![]() How Lito at once struggles to come out to the world as gay, and yet is flourishing in his home life. Silvestre perfectly captures all the nuances of Lito’s experiences, the highs as well as the lows. This is because the character is incredibly multifaceted in sexuality, work, and his role as part of the group of eight, Lito is constantly juggling many identities and realities. Of all his roles on this list, Silvestre shines brightest as Lito. A gay actor living with a long-term boyfriend, Silvestre’s character is a big part of how the show approaches social topics. Miguel Ángel Silvestre’s character is a big part of that. From a larger-than-life plot, impossible human stunts, and breathtaking scenes in some of the most beautiful parts of the country, to breaking down ideas of sex and gender and addressing society's taboos, Sense8 pushes audiences to think outside the box. A s a creative project, the series pushed all sorts of boundaries. In a show that often treats sex with the clunky vocabulary of bad slash fiction, Lito’s description-“I took him into my mouth like I was taking Holy Communion,” he says as he unbuttons his lover’s trousers and drops to his knees-is a strangely beautiful image, alluding to the gauche Catholic imagery of his pulpy movies, the homophobic culture he is fighting against, and the love he can’t stand to lose.His first role in an American series, Silvestre became an immediate fan favorite for his role as Lito Rodriguez in Sense8, one of the individuals connected by an ethereal force to seven other strangers. He recalls Hernando telling him about the Rivera mural and being so overcome with passion for him that they had their first sexual encounter in the museum toilets. They sit before a mural by Diego Rivera, and Lito compares his loss of Hernando to the day Rivera lost Frida Kahlo. He wants to be alone, but Nomi, who is unsure of Amanita’s fate, thinks their connection has brought them together because they are both missing their lovers. It was where he went on a first date with Hernando (Alfonso Herrera) his now-ex lover. (Well, besides the omnibus orgy three episodes before.) Nomi appears next to Lito on a bench in the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City. In the episode, Lito and Nomi meet for the first time. Nomi, meanwhile, runs the risk of being a serious Mary Sue: She is so flawless, so capable, that she is all light and no shade, always the victim or the heroine and never anything in between. But both stories are also riddled with problems: Why, exactly, is Lito afraid to come out? What is the exact consequence he fears? And why does Daniela’s ex demand to see Lito sleep with her as some sort of validation? His request to ogle their lovemaking comes off as a cheap, clunky bit of over-sexualization. Nomi’s relationship with Amanita (Freema Agyeman) is unusually strong for TV-not once do the supernatural shenanigans drive a wedge between them. The beard, Daniela (Eréndira Ibarra), never falls prey to cliché plots of deception or blackmail rather, her flaw is that she fetishizes gay men too much. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nomi and Lito are unusual characters with unusual storylines: Nomi’s sensate powers lead to her being forcibly hospitalized by conspirators of the show’s “big bad,” and she spends most of the show on the run, while Lito finds a very willing female beard who has a troubled former lover. ![]()
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