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"I wanted to do it so badly. I'm sure every Latino artist wanted to be a part of it as well. I was just very lucky that Craig Gerber, the show runner and creator, was a fan of Jane the Virgin and invited me to play [King Juan Ramón]."
"It was very similar to the Latin Lover character but with more bravado. I always consider the Latin Lover more of a metro sexual whose orientation is somewhat ambiguous. So I took that same accent, but I gave him more machismo for this particular role, more of a regal aspect. But it has meant the world to me. Not only because of what it means historically for Disney and for the American Latino, but also what it means for my kids. It's one of the few jobs they can actually watch that I've done, because they're so young."