As a child, sitting in front of the tv with my mom weekdays meant only one thing, Walter Mercado was about to hit the small screen. Fast forward to 2020, and Walter Mercado is set to be discovered by a new audience with Netflix’s Mucho Mucho Amor, premiering July 8.
As first released by Entertainment Weekly, EW’s exclusive trailer debut for the documentary, Mercado is remembered by filmmakers Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch as the glue that binds immigrants of every generation from all over Latin America.
Costantini tells EW,
“Getting to know Walter Mercado while working on Mucho Mucho Amor was one of the greatest privileges of our lives,”
“We grew up watching him, like every other Latino in the United States so when we first met him, there’s no doubt we were starstruck. By the end of production, we had worked with him on this for two years and we became part of his family. When he died at the end of 2019, Kareem and [producer] Alex [Fumero] were pallbearers at his funeral. I want the world to know he was really that full of love and that he was such a sweetheart, exactly as you’d imagine.”
Mucho Mucho Amor hits Netflix July 8th.
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