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        <title><![CDATA[‘Mr. Iglesias’ star Cree Cicchino dishes on her big TV summer]]></title>
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            <media:title type="html">‘Mr. Iglesias’ star Cree Cicchino dishes on her big TV summer</media:title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cree Cicchino&#8217;s summer TV schedule is fully booked.</p><p>On Wednesday, the 18-year-old Queens native returns as fan-fave high-school student Marisol Fuentes for Season 2 of &#8220;<strong>Mr. Iglesias</strong>,&#8221; the Netflix sitcom starring stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias as a kind-hearted teacher.</p><p>Later this summer, Cicchino will co-star in the Netflix movie &#8220;<strong>The Sleepover</strong>,&#8221; a comedy starring Joe Manganiello, Ken Marino and Malin Akerman.</p><p>Cicchino spoke to The Post about &#8220;Mr. Iglesias,&#8221; &#8220;The Sleepover&#8221; and her other TV work.</p><h2>Does Marisol have a specific story arc in Season 2 of &#8220;Mr. Iglesias&#8221;?</h2><p>Overall, the season jumps into the kids&#8217; [lives] a little more, and there&#8217;s more of the classroom and Marisol&#8217;s relationships. You&#8217;ll be seeing a little romance between Marisol and Mikey [Fabrizio Guido]; it&#8217;s a bit more real and legit.</p><h2>Describe Marisol.</h2><p>She&#8217;s quite similar to me in certain ways. I think she&#8217;s kind of no-nonsense, and one of the ways she&#8217;s most like me is how outspoken she is, politically. On the show she spends a lot of time correcting adults around her or making comments about the state of the nation — which is quite similar to how I act on the set and in real life.</p><h2>What&#8217;s it like working with Gabriel Iglesias?</h2><p>He&#8217;s fantastic. The word we used a lot is &#8220;generous.&#8221; He&#8217;s the sweetest guy and always has time for everyone. He throws a big, beautiful wrap party [at the end of the season] and there are always food trucks on the lot. He&#8217;s just like his character, Mr. Iglesias — he wants to take care of us.</p><figure id="attachment_15811316"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/mr-iglesias-1-copy.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/06/mr-iglesias-1-copy.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/mr-iglesias-1-copy.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Gabriel Iglesias (right) stars in the titular Netflix series.</span><span class="credit">KEVIN ESTRADA/NETFLIX</span></figcaption></figure><h2>You starred on the Nickelodeon series &#8220;Game Shakers&#8221; (2015 to 2019). How does that compare to &#8220;Mr. Iglesias&#8221;?</h2><p>It&#8217;s incredibly different. When we shot &#8220;Game Shakers&#8221; it was extremely hectic. There wasn&#8217;t one second of the day where we weren&#8217;t doing something. All the [young cast members] were still in school and the episodes were just wild — we&#8217;d have a huge animal or a huge stunt or a fall in every episode and the kids talked in crazy, excited monologues. We also didn&#8217;t have a live audience. Here it&#8217;s so smooth and mellow, with people sitting and talking like normal humans. It&#8217;s much less complicated.</p><h2>Does having that live audience make a difference?</h2><p>It adds a whole extra momentum. The best nights are when things we didn&#8217;t even consider jokes get huge laughs. Sometimes other jokes just aren&#8217;t working. Almost every week Gabriel or Sherri Shepherd [who plays Paula Madison] will think of a good joke during rehearsals, maybe something a little risqué, and save it for show night.</p><h2>Tell me about &#8220;The Sleepover.&#8221;</h2><p>It&#8217;s four kids at a sleepover. I play Mim. She&#8217;s best friends with Clancy [Sadie Stanley], whose mom is in witness protection, which we find out through some crazy shenanigans. We&#8217;re alerted to the fact that Clancy&#8217;s parents are missing and we go on a big, crazy irresponsible adventure to track them down. It&#8217;s the wildest real-time experience anyone will have in one night.</p><h2>Where did you grow up in Queens?</h2><p>Glendale. I left when I was 12, when I started on &#8220;Game Shakers.&#8221; I go back in the summer and for holidays, and my family comes here [to LA] because it&#8217;s so nice and calm. I&#8217;ve totally lost my [Queens] accent. I&#8217;m devastated, though it comes back over the holidays when I&#8217;m with my family.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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