For months now, we’ve been expecting Gloria Estefan’s entrance as Santana Lopez’s (Naya Rivera) mom on FOX’s strike show, “Glee,” and tonight we’ll finally accommodate Maribel Lopez (Estefan) in a “Glee” deteriorate culmination (9/8c on FOX).

The Cuban Grammy-winner spoke to Entertainment Weekly about tonight’s episode, and when she was asked to report her character, Estefan explained that Maribel is a lot like Santana. “Snarky like Santana and spiteful given a apple can’t tumble that distant from a tree!” Gloria said. “{She] desired to sing and was a thespian and put her life on reason given she suspicion being a mom was unequivocally important, so she wants Santana to make it through,” she said.

And distinct Santana’s grandmother, who we met in Jan and who disowned Santana after she came out as gay, Maribel loves her daughter unconditionally. “I’m unequivocally understanding of my daughter,” Estefan said. “You always have to have a behind story even if we have one line. So my behind story with Santana’s mom was she didn’t get to go to college so she unequivocally wants Santana to do that. Up until now Santana has had a good attribute with her grandmother, though when she confronted her a response was unequivocally hard. She was substantially a same approach with Maribel,” she added.

Estefan, who says she’s been a fan of a uncover given deteriorate one, pronounced she was anxious when she got a call from executive writer Ryan Murphy to guest star on a show. “Ryan [Murphy] reached out to me to play Santana Lopez’s mom and we was anxious given we consider it was a good event after what a grandma did to do something supportive,” she said.

She says she hopes her impression will bond with LGBT viewers. “I wish quite for a happy fans, given she’s got a lot of them, she plays a happy character, we wish them to know that notwithstanding a fact that people competence respond in a bad approach or in a approach that’s not understanding in their life, even someone as tighten as a grandma, that there are relatives that can be unequivocally supportive,” she says. “For a parents, we consider it would be a good thing to see. It addresses an emanate that is important.”

Estefan, who has a daughter in high school, pronounced she relates a good understanding to a character. “She’s understanding of her daughter. She usually wants her to be happy—bottom line. we know a feeling given my daughter is removing prepared to do her final year of high propagandize and she’s gonna do a summer program. It’s a initial time we’re all going to be separated. I’m there! It was a unequivocally tough thing for me to imagine,” she said.

There’s usually one bad thing about Gloria’s coming on “Glee” — we cannot hear a Cuban Grammy-winner sing on tonight’s episode. “I don’t sing on a uncover though we kinda consider that’s improved given we consider that would chuck fans,” she said. “Hopefully, we can come behind and do a singing. But we adore to be on there and substantiating a character.”

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