Meet Anthony Mendez, your favorite cwjanethevirgin character you never see
When I chatted with Anthony Mendez, the voice of the narrator on Jane the Virgin, he's just been nominated for an Emmy… but for his work on the PBS documentary, Wonders of Mexico, rather than for the show to which he's dedicated his life for the past five years."I was really more upset for Jennie [Snyder Urman, Jane the Virgin creator]," he says of missing out on one last Jane nomination ."I kind of wanted to get one last one for her.
Ahead, we chat with Mendez about finding his voice, the evolution of the Latin Lover, and what's next after Jane. But then I started looking for an agent, I submitted my work, and they don't want to hear that. That's a different bubble altogether. They want to hear actors, they want to hear somebody who can do a commercial and interpret copy. In order for me to get an agent, I realized, I had to get better at it so I started taking acting classes, improv classes, in order to just become a better actor. And I got signed in 2006.
When I got the audition, I ended up viewing Amélie for its narration. Although there are subtitles, you can still kind of get the intention and the way that the narration is applied to the different situations. I also started bingeing Pushing Daisies because the way that that was narrated was incredible. Arrested Development was a big one too because of Ron Howard's approach to it. I also binged Emily Owens, M.D.
I went back and watched the first episode, and in it, the narrator is more passive and is barely present. Whereas now he sometimes has more lines than the on-screen actors. How do you think his role has changed throughout the seasons?
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