Emilio Rivera (Marcus Alvarez, de founder en national president van the Mayans M.C., aka El Padrino) is een beroemde acteur in veel b-movies en TV series. Maar zijn rol in Mayans M.C. is groot, net als zijn aandeel die hij had in de Sons of Anarchy. De website Collider had een interview met hem en daar van kan je nu hier onder een klein stukje lezen.

Marcus Alvarez has always seemed like one of those characters that there was so much more to learn about.

RIVERA: Exactly. And we don't know how deep they'll go with Marcus Alvarez, but a little bit of mystery is good. I like that. I really do. We saw just enough of him on Sons to stay intrigued with him. and now we have the Mayans M.C. If I had talked too much, then they would have been done with him. I'm happy. It's good.

The Mayans didn't originally exist on Sons and you started out playing a different character. When you think back to where you had started, what's it like to see how it's evolved into this?

RIVERA: I was a part of the Sons. I was Hawk, who was the equivalent to Tig's character. I'm so happy about the evolution. When we were doing the original pilot of Sons, it didn't make no sense. We'd be sitting in the church, doing the meeting and going, "So, tomorrow night, we're gonna go kill those wetbacks," and I was like, "I'm right here, bro." I would just have to eat it up and not say anything in response, so I was glad when the network saw the same thing and made me Marcus Alvarez. I was happy about that.