Where did the idea for Cane come from, and how did that coincide with Jimmy Smits being involved?
\n \nThe idea for Cane actually is very roundabout, because what happened was that Jonathan Prince and Polly Anthony, who are executive producers on the show with me and Jimmy. They had called me and they had an idea to do a show about a Mexican family in the food business in Los Angeles, and at first I wasn’t sure I wanted to do that. I was already doing another pilot for CBS just last year, and had never wanted to do two pilots. \n \nBut somehow, I’m not exactly sure how, I got talked into it, and we went to see Nina Tassler, who is president of production at CBS. I pitched her the idea about this family and the Mexicans in Los Angeles in the food business, and she said “Sounds great.” She called me up that night, she said, “Why are you doing that? You’re Cuban.” And I said “Well, that’s what I told you,” and she said, “Yeah, yeah, but make it about what you know.” \n \nIt was like a Friday night I think – because I had worked this whole other story out, completely different story, w
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