The expected release on the second season of American Crime Story began this week and featured Latin pop sensation, Ricky Martin. In season two, the story focuses on Gianni Versace and the serial killer, Andrew Cunanan, who killed Versace in cold blood along with four others during a three-month spree.
Ricky Martin plays Antonio D’Amico, Versace’s lover of fifteen years. Fans of Ricky have been waiting to see him on the small screen again after quite a while. While Ricky had a small guest role in the TV show, Glee; it has been since the mid-nineties, since he has been a regular on a television show. Ricky is a performer, so being on stage is something that he portrays comfortably. But the stage is so different from television and his overplayed emotions and facial expressions that would be perceived as normal in front of a crowd on stage comes off forced in the emotional scenes that make up the first episode.
While Ricky makes his appearance early on, it isn’t until Cunanan shot Versace do we see Ricky come out on the steps of the Versace mansion, and the overacting kicks in. It continues while the police question him about his relationship with Versace. Maybe he was trying to portray “shocked” but I know that if I was in his position, I would have been at the hospital and not sitting down with police. Again, I felt that the situation was far-fetched and overplayed. Even Penelope Cruz’s portrayal of Donatella Versace seemed forced, yet I know little about her personally to know if the portrayal is off.
But fans are happy, and so am I. It is great to see Ricky continuing to get recognition and a role in such a prominent television show that is shown all over the world. Following Ricky since Menudo, it is always nice to see him succeed, and maybe one day, I won’t look at him as 12-year-old Little Ricky…but as a Menudo fan, I doubt it.
Since that day, I have been study Latin pop and rock music and have become a Latin pop music historian through the publishing of articles, fanzine, and websites. My goal is to teach people about Latin pop music and the history behind it with my website, Siempre En Domingo.
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