grossing films from 2007 to 2019, only six lead roles were held by afro-latinos. and the numbers for indigenous brothers and sisters, those numbers are just abysmal. so you feel accepted in the black community? today except you as equally, even though you are latina? that was also very tricky, because it was, in the beginning, when they were like, oh, yeah, absolutely, you re one of us, and this is great, and you have conversations, and you go deeper, and of course, they are fascinated. and you are not ostracized. but it was feeling like, i do i have to give this up? just to be that? but you are asked to give up your latinx because you had to present more black? i had to percent more black, and i m straddling both worlds, until such time then that i could talk j.j. abrams into making my character on alias, a rousseau cuban assassin.
family restaurant that has been in the middle of englewood since 1987. i know my homies and i are in for a real treat. thank you for coming, everybody. this is so exciting, bro. you know how glad i am to see you all here, for real. there s a popular word in latin america [speaking non-english] that describes that moment when we gather at the dinner table to share what is on our minds. and for this [speaking non-english] , i brought together the future of latinos in the film industry. teresa castro smith is an amazing writer, producer, and the first latina to ever go direct a disney animated film. she did that with, encanto. victor was soup is one of the industry s top young latinx actors, which shows like the baker in the beauty, and how to make in america. carolina garcia is the director of original series at netflix, and one of the few latinx executives who can make decisions that will affect representation. and clayton davis, this guy
asked gloria to reboot the sitcom, but now with a land twist. he said, well we re thinking about doing the latina version. i said, i don t know, norman. i don t know if you should. i said, because people will try to do it, and we, as an audience, we are hard audience, because there has been such a starvation for representation that when one thing exists, we are, like it better represent all of us. yeah, because all we have is one show. and he s, like so what do you think would change it? and he s, like i ll tell you what i think would change it. it s like, i m gonna tell one story about one cuban american woman that lives in los angeles that is super, super, super, specific, to me in my experience. he said, let s do that. so i, said okay. i walked out of there, and i said, i guess i m making a show up moment here. so with, that i finally, we had a position of power. was it a time red for three seasons on netflix, and then a fourth on pop tv. gloria is now in the second seas
one for you, and one for you. these are quesadillas. how did you get started in comedy, man? how did that happen for you? i, thank you, know i m an only child, i wasn t raised with my mother, i never knew my father, my grandmother had six kids, very dysfunctional, very disconnected. my grandfather that raised me was not my biological grandfather. so television, i needed it. there was no way i could ve survived without. it it was a stand-in for family, for parents, for everybody. and then you gravitate towards the things that you like. what did you like? tonight show, johnny carson, the chacon oh man, sanbornton son, you know he is an important performer for any latinx performer, freddie was their first, and he