Lin-Manuel Miranda addressed the controversy surrounding the lack of Afro-Latinx characters in In The Heights, vowing to “do better” in future projects.
after months indoors, but it offers rare big-screen representation for the Latinx community. “You don’t see 75 Latinos dancing in the middle of [the] street and singing about pride and repping their block [in films],”. “This movie created a space for us, not only to be in it, but to be ourselves in a major motion picture and give people a glimpse into a life, especially what it is like to be Latino in New York.”in the casting of the core roles.
Miranda went on to apologize for failing to adequately represent Washington Heights’s Afro-Latinx population in the film, and vowed to “do better” in future projects. He wrote that without proper diversity, “the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy.” Miranda added, “In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short. I’m truly sorry. I’m learning from the feedback, I thank you for raising it, and I’m listening.
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