MINNEAPOLIS — Tony Shalhoub grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the Vikings are mortal enemies. But that didn't deter him from playing one of the most successful business executives to ever hail from Minnesota.
In "Flamin' Hot," now streaming on Hulu and Disney+, the five-time Emmy winner portrays the late Roger Enrico, a Chisholm native who became CEO of PepsiCo Inc. The film, directed by Eva Longoria, is an inspirational comedy about a Mexican American janitor, Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), who takes credit for inventing Frito-Lay's Flamin' Hot Cheetos when Enrico was the boss.
The facts of the film are in dispute (a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation found lots of holes in Montañez's story), but it's pretty safe to assume that Shalhoub had a ball.
