Luis Bordonada as Nelson Herrera, the man who wants to buy Lyn, Emma, and Eddy's bar and who sexually harassed Emma. Elizabeth De Razzo as Yoli, Mari's best friend and fellow activist. Renée Victor as Doña Tita Adelina Anthony as Rocky, Eddy's friend. Erika Soto as Karla, the mother of Johnny's child Vanessa Giselle as Lucky aka "Femme" Raúl Castillo as Baco (season 2), the new handyman for the bar. Emma uses him for sex. Adrian Gonzalez as Rudy (season 2–3), Lyn's love interest who is a city councilman Tonatiuh as Marcos, a queer man and PhD holder who is friends with Cruz and moves into Lyn and Emma's building Episodes Season 1 (2018) Season 2 (2019) Season 3 (2020) Production Development On January 8, 2016, the series was first announced as being in development at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California, during Starz's executive session. The show was announced alongside two other projects based on Spanish-language formats and stories from Hispanic creators. The series, then titled Pour Vida, was inspired by the short story of the same name by Richard Villegas Jr. Executive producers were set to include Marc Turtletaub, Dan Pasternack, and Erin Keating. Production companies involved with the series were slated to consist of Big Beach. On September 13, 2017, it was announced that Starz had given the show, now entitled Vida, a series order. Executive producers for the series were now expected to include Turtletaub, Tanya Saracho, Peter Saraf, and Robin Schwartz. Saracho was also set to serve as showrunner for the series and Alonso Ruizpalacios was set to direct the first episode. Upon joining the production, Saracho assembled an all-Latino writers' room — with writers who were all female-identified except for one cisgender male and half of whom identified as queer. Similarly, the casting director, composer, and editor of the series were also all female and Latina. As Starz had already established a basic premise for the series prior to her hiring, Saracho continued to develop the project and sought to imbue the series with more LGBTQ representation saying, "They wanted a female millennial show about , which is the gentrification of a Latino space. The queerness came from me. I identify as queer, and it had to be there." On January 12, 2018, it was announced at the annual Television Critics Association winter press tour that the series would premiere on