For Tonatiuh , the journey from West Covina to sharing the screen with Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna in “ Kiss of the Spider Woman ” happened with whiplash-inducing speed.

“I got an email with the materials, Dec. 19,” the 30-year-old actor recalls of his audition process. “So the industry shut down by that point, and I submitted it. And by Dec. 22 at 8 a.m. they were like, do not move.”

By January, he was performing a tango and a Bob Fosse number for director Bill Condon. Shortly after, he was cast for the dual role of Luis Molina and Kendall Nesbitt in the musical adaptation of Manuel Puig’s novel, a role that earned William Hurt an Oscar in the 1985 film version. The part required extreme physical transformation. Coming off the Netflix hit “Carry-On,” Tonatiuh had to drop nearly

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