Carlos Pena is featured as a contestant in the MTV network’s competitive reality television series Making Menudo. He is 17 years old and hails from Westin, FL. Pena has the self-confident swagger of someone who believes that he’s meant for greatness and stardom, at least in his own mind. He entered the world of acting when he was much younger, and has already worked on other television shows such as the iconic medical drama series
ER. Johnny Wright found himself impressed by Pena’s performance during the Miami audition screenings, and sent the boy off to the penthouse together with the others, where Pena is considered an old hand at show business.
But instead of being a mentor to the others, Pena emerges as a source of vocal criticism and worry that the others aren’t taking their efforts seriously enough. His strong desire to make it into the final five leaves him worried that the others won’t pull together as a group, and that they will thus hold him back from success. With the atmosphere of tension that the strongly driven Pena has found himself in, he will have to learn how to handle the relative newcomers and integrate their talent with his own experience, if he truly wants a shot at making it into Menudo.
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