'Chicago Fire,' 'P.D.' stars spend strike grilling, barbacking, window dressing
The downtime has been fun — think bratwurst, golf and puffy shirts — but striking actors on NBC’s hit Chicago shows are eager to get back to their day jobs.
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The downtime has been fun — think bratwurst, golf and puffy shirts — but striking actors on NBC’s hit Chicago shows are eager to get back to their day jobs.
Adrian Burrows/NBC Joe Miñoso, who plays firefighter Joe Cruz on NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” recalls a time when he says he had to “gentrify” his name in order to gain acceptance from the film and television industry. “I would have a few conversations with some professors and other colleagues, and people who would come in and do workshops and say: ‘You might want to take that tilde away,’ ” said Miñoso, referring to the symbol that distinguishes the Spanish letter “ñ” from an “n.” “It’s gonna confuse people; they’re not gonna know how to say it.” Years later, Mi...
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