History Trivia / Selena

* DawsonCasting:
** Jennifer Lopez was 28 when the film was made, which was five years older than Selena was when she died. She also plays her as a teenager.
** A more straightforward example would be Constance Marie portraying Marcella, Selena's mother, despite being only four years older than Jennifer Lopez.

* PromotedFangirl:
** Saldívar, who went from being just a fan to Selena's fan club president, to manager of Selena's boutique, Selena's personal assistant, and a member of the band's inner circle. Of course, this turned out to be a horrible and tragic mistake.
** Music/SelenaGomez is a huge Selena fan, and so are her parents, [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous which is how she got her name]]. Gomez was chosen by the Quintanilla family to record a remix of "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" in 2012.

* AndIntroducing[=/=][[OneBookAuthor One Film Actor]]: Marks the first and only movie for Rebecca Lee Meza, who plays Selena as a child.

* TalentDouble: Jon Seda couldn't manage the guitar riff for Perez's audition scene, so the real Perez doubled for his hands in close-up.

** Jon Seda likewise spent lots of time with Perez.

** Unknown 17-year-old Danielle Camastra auditioned for the role of Selena. Creator/SalmaHayek was the first choice but turned it down, feeling it would be too emotional so soon after Selena's death.

* DoingItForTheArt: The wardrobe department so accurately recreated some of Selena's outfits that Suzette was convinced Jennifer Lopez was actually wearing her original clothes.

** A more straightforward example would be Constance Marie [[PlayingGertrude portraying Marcella]], Selena's mother, despite being only four years older than Jennifer Lopez.

** Saldívar, who went from being just a fan to Selena's fan club president, to manager of Selena's boutique, Selena's personal assistant, and a member of the band's inner circle. Of course, this was horribly and tragically {{inverted}}.

* GenreKiller: Even though there were some notable Tejano musicians before her, it was Selena who made the genre popular with the Latin audience in the United States during the [[TheNineties 1990s]]. No Tejano musician was able to replicate her success and Tejano itself never recovered years after her death. To this day, the music is only played a few Mexican Americans living in Texas albeit with no success outside of the region.
* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Saldívar, who went from being just a fan to Selena's fan club president, to manager of Selena's boutique, Selena's personal assistant, and a member of the band's inner circle. Of course, this was [[FaceHeelTurn horribly]], [[AxCrazy horribly]] [[InvertedTrope inverted.]]

** Wiki/TheOtherWiki has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Selena_concert_tours an article]] on the crossover tour that never happened.
** Her last album itself was supposed to be fully recorded in English and [[DiedDuringProduction was still working on it at the time of her death]]. Only four of the six songs she recorded was included while the rest of the track listing contains her earlier hits.
** Overall, ''everything'' had she not passed. It leaves much to wonder how Selena would have crossed over into the English market and into the [=2000s=] and [=2010s=]..

** The movie got into a little hot water when they cast Lopez to play Selena. Some people felt that they should honor Selena's Mexican heritage by hiring a Mexican actress, instead of Lopez, who's Puerto Rican.

* FanNickname: The Queen of Tejano/La Reina

* DyeingForYourArt: Edward James Olmos gained forty pounds to play Abraham.
* FakeNationality: The movie got into a little hot water when they cast Lopez to play Selena. Some people felt that they should honor Selena's Mexican heritage by hiring a Mexican actress, instead of Lopez, who's Puerto Rican.