'Fear the Walking Dead' plans to bring in a whole bunch of talent from varying backgrounds, and one actor that hasn't yet had much coverage is Panamanian music star Ruben Blades.

He recently spoke with EW on his character and role in the series, along with what made him want to enlist on the cast in the first place.

He began with explaining his character in the show, Daniel Salazar:

"I'm playing Daniel Salazar, a person who immigrated to the U.S. from Central America, and is a barber, and has a past that is exposed because of what happens in the context of this, I don't know what to call it, this "situation." Salazar has a lot of previous knowledge of chaos and mayhem and destruction collapse of order. The others don't have that because they have been pretty much a product of the United States under a certain level of order, and Salazar comes from a situation where he has seen it happen under different circumstances - political, but nevertheless bloody and violent. So he's a product of that, and he moves in a different way, and he understands these things clearer, faster than the others. So he has a certain advantage in that, but not that much."

He goes on to describe the story they're telling as an "allegory:"

"The big question as I understand it is one of importance, in the sense that it's entertainment, obviously, but it also poses very serious questions as to what would happen if everything that we take for granted that is a structure that supports our freedoms and our everyday routines would collapse? How would people react when not forced by law and by consequences to behave a certain way? What would we do? And that is a very important question. In this country, it doesn't have the urgency that it has right now in Syria, for instance, or Darfur, or anywhere in the world where people's lives have changed dramatically because of sudden change - in this case political change."

He finishes with stating that he's a big fan of the comics and his three favorite characters are Rick, Carl, and Michonne.

'Fear the Walking Dead' premieres on August 23.