“In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short. I’m truly sorry,” Miranda says
“I hear that without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy,” he continued. “In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short. I’m truly sorry.”
Chu acknowledged her concern. “Yeah, I think that was something we talked about and I needed to be educated about, of course. In the end, you know, when we were looking at the cast we tried to get the people who were best for those roles specifically and we saw a lot of people… 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.
Chu said it was “a fair conversation to have” and added that he hoped that the conversation would encourage “more people to tell more stories and get out there and do it right.”
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