Lin-Manuel Miranda Admits In the Heights 'Fell Short' of Representing Afro-Latinx Community
, why there was a lack of Afro-Latinx representation in the film. He admitted it was a subject "I needed to be educated about.""In the end, when we were looking at the cast, we tried to get people who were best for those roles," he shared. "But I hear you on trying to fill those cast members with darker skin. I think that's a really good conversation to have, something that we should all be talking about.
"Those are roles that, historically, we've been able to fill. We've been able to be the dancers, we've been able to be in the hair salons...but, like, a lead? That's the breakthrough," she explained. "We want to see Black people. We wanna see Afro-Panamanians, Black Cubans, Black Dominicans. That's what we want to see. That's what we were yearning for and hoping for.
"In the audition process, which was a long audition process, there were a lot of Afro-Latinos there. A lot of darker-skinned people. And I think they were looking for just the right people for the roles," she told Felice, adding, "And because the cast ended up being us, and Washington Heights is a melting pot of Black and Latinx people, Jon and Lin wanted the dancers and the big numbers to feel very truthful to what the community looks like.
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