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. In the four years since that pivotal moment, he hasn’t given up on Hollywood. “I think that the entertainment industry is slowly evolving as far as being more inclusive, both in front of and behind the camera of the LGBTQ community,” Smith observed.
“I think there is also, sort of like, jokes and stereotypes that persisted for so long in film and television, that you can’t get away with anymore, not that they like don't pop up every now and again but I think as far as, like, trans people go, we're definitely seeing a lot of great trans and nonbinary representation that no longer feels so gimmicky, that feels like it's coming from an earnest place.”Smith offers one example in particular.
Santos has seen a similar change as well, especially as a working actor in Hollywood. “I was thinking a character like, sort of like the intersectionality of his identity, probably wouldn't be able to exist in the show, you know, 5, 10 years ago. I'm sure that if somebody had pitched, ‘Oh this character is gay and he's Asian and he's undocumented,’ we can't have that. We already have a gay guy or we already have an Asian guy. He can't be both.
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