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After all that, “The West Wing’s” nobility of purpose is enough to make one weep.

But viewers may be more inclined to weep at how this would-be tearjerker relies on its remarkable star to uplift an otherwise insufferable film.

It was only when she listened back to her interview with police, describing how she murdered her mother, that she began to weep.

The Spanish-language opera, which premiered at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in 2022, sees the Passion of Christ through the eyes of three unnamed, often ignored women who weep for Jesus on his way to crucifixion — an idea that sprung from conversations between Lucero and Stacy Brightman, then the company’s Vice President of Education and Community Outreach, about the traditional stations of the cross.

She enters these Olympics as the hero of the type of comeback story that we love to weep and cheer over.