'Selena: The Series' vs. Jennifer Lopez Biopic: Suzette Quintanilla Explains The Difference

Netflix's "Selena: The Series" is different from the 1997 biopic starring Jennifer Lopez as the queen of Tejano music, Selena Quintanilla, according to the late singer's sister.

"Selena: The Series" premiered on the streaming site on Friday, allowing fans of the Texas-born singer to relive her story 25 years after her death. Selena's sister, Suzette Quintanilla, recently spoke with Entertainment Tonight about the series and explained the difference between this new project and Lopez's film over two decades ago.

"The difference is that the series is about the actual journey of us being a family, struggling to understand and figure out this musical part of us that we didn't really realize that we had," she told ET.

"A lot of the growth of Selena y Los Dinos, basically, and the journey. I like to call it my life journey, our family's life journey, really."

Suzette made it clear that she also loved the 1997 biopic about her late sister. But it was difficult to accurately portray the intimate moments and bond shared by the family and siblings in a two-hour movie.

"I love the movie, by the way. It's just that, it's hard to create your whole life and trying to [show] the interaction of the closeness that [our brother] Abe, Selena and I had as siblings and how things really got done," she shared.

But they were able to show their family's close bond in the new series, which stars "Twilight" and "The Walking Dead" actress Christian Serratos as Selena. Netflix's show also answered several questions about the Mexican-American music icon and showed the full story of their journey.

"This series is more about all the questions, the little things that Selena's fans have been asking throughout the years like, 'Why was this song created or why this?'" Suzette said.

"It's more about filling in the full story of our journey and hopefully inspiring those who are going on a journey of their own," she continued. "And whatever their dream is, to understand this was not a rise to fame right away. It was not like that. It took quite a bit of years and a lot of hardship as a family and being able to get where we were before she was ultimately taken from us."

Selena was only 23 years old when she was fatally shot in 1995 by Yolanda Saldivar, her own agent and the president of her own fan club. The Grammy-winning artist and Latin pop icon was at the peak of her career at the time, releasing hit songs such as "Amor Prohibido," "Como la Flor" and "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom."

"Selena: The Series" Season 1 is now available to stream on Netflix. The second part is already done and is expected to be released on April 16, 2021 — what would have been the late singer's 50th birthday.

However, Netflix may also choose to widen the gap and let viewers wait a little longer for Season 2, Screen Rant noted.