‘This is also a face of Latinidad’: How Gina Torres made producers rethink their ideas of American beauty
“For decades, Gina Torres has carved out a career in Hollywood feeling like she couldn’t fully express herself. Now, the Afro-Latina actor is using her power to change that.
The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Torres said there was a time when she had to audition for a role multiple times early in her career because she didn’t fit producers’ ideas of American beauty.
“You’re too exotic and they didn’t want to confuse the audience,” Torres recalled being told.
Afro-Latino performers like Torres have been “hiding in plain sight,” she said, as Hollywood tends to cast them for Black roles because they “don’t look Latino.”
Over the past three decades, Torres has brought her artistry to roles in “Suits,” “Firefly,” “24,” “Hannibal” and numerous other series.
But only recently, when Torres said she stopped sacrificing one part of her identity over the other, has she felt like she’s had significant wins when it comes to representation on screen…”
GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE (2021) - To protect 8-year-old Emily (Chloe Coleman), dangerous assassin Sam (Karen Gillan) reunites with her mother Scarlet (Lena Headey) and her lethal associates & secret sisterhood of assassins, Anna May (Angela Bassett), Florence (Michelle Yeoh) and Mathilde (Carla Gugino) to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.
Screenplay by Ehud Lavski & Navot Papushado, produced by Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona, and directed by Navot Papushado.
Scheduled to be released by Netflix on July 14th, 2021.
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