15 Latino Actors On Their Experiences In Hollywood

'I wasn’t even allowed to try to get that main role, because 'they want to go traditional on the part.' I would hang up, thinking, 'What about me is non-traditional?' It was a very hard pill to swallow.'

"I wasn’t even allowed to try to get that main role, because 'they want to go traditional on the part.' I would hang up, thinking, 'What about me is non-traditional?' It was a very hard pill to swallow."the New York Times about her first audition as a teenager and being asked to sound"more Latino." She recalled,"I had no idea what she was talking about. 'You mean you want me to speak in Spanish?' She's like, 'No.

The gatekeepers are not usually people of color, so they don't understand you should be looking for way more colors of the rainbow within that one ethnicity."She continued, "I was developing a medical show, and the lead was a Latina heart surgeon. It didn't go forward . Networks say, 'We're on board with diversity,' and they'll develop it, but they seldom program it. We don't have enough people in the decision-making process.

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