“It’s so fun to walk into a space in the middle of Hollywood, & feel like I’m totally with family. It’s the little things. We’re accustomed to code-switching on set. But walking in & seeing all of our shapes… is so comforting.” itsjeaninemason shares.
a sisterhood, Raisa says — than simply feeling comforted by familiarity. Members are also determined to make room for themselves in an industry that has long refused to open its doors to Latinas. “We’ve all been on different sets inhabiting the token Latina on a program. Theis so powerful. The purpose of these meetings is to ask what we don’t have, either in access or information or agency. We address that and empower each other.
The group also acts as a gut-check for Latinx-specific issues. Raisa went to her first meeting soon after she booked, where she plays Cuban-American Ana Torres. “When I first booked it, I was a little nervous because I’m not Cuban and my character is," says Raisa, who is Honduran- and Mexican-American."I was nervous for [viewers] obviously. But I told [the group], ‘I was nervous for you guys, too.
Mason also had her own writer’s room issue to work out. Her character’s ex-fiancé may appear on-screen for the first time in the second season, and there was an opportunity to cast an underrepresented Latino for the role. “What if he’s Afro-Latino? What if her dad has an opinion about that?” Mason asks, about the potential to use a casting decision to create an opportunity to discuss colorism within Latinx communities.
that she would be developing a feature film about the 1947 Mendez vs. Westminster school desegregation case with her producing partner, Mandy Teefey, who — along with her daughter Selena Gomez — produced the controversial Netflix show about teen suicide,. The federal court case case decided that Mexican-American students couldn’t be forced to attend schools separate from their white peers.
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