Get ready to take a deep dive into the world of Latinas; you'll never watch TV or movies the same way again! Discover the evolution and impact of Latina representation in Hollywood. We take a hard look at pervasive stereotypes, the exoticization of Latinas, and the distressingly limited roles we've been given in movies and television. We celebrate the growth of Latina representation and spotlight the shows pushing forward - including 'One Day at a Time', 'Made in Manhattan', and 'Euphoria'.
We don't stop at Hollywood's door - we talk about the real-world implications too, the stereotype-laden expectations and fetishization of Latinas that seep into everyday life. And we're not shying away from hard truths - we're confronting the grim reality of current immigration policies, especially the horrific measures in Texas. It's not just a conversation about media, it's a conversation about our lives, our culture, and the world we want to see. Tune in as we share our thoughts, experiences, and hopes for a more inclusive and fair representation of Latinas.
Get ready to take a deep dive into the world of Latinas; you'll never watch TV or movies the same way again! Discover the evolution and impact of Latina representation in Hollywood. We take a hard look at pervasive stereotypes, the exoticization of Latinas, and the distressingly limited roles we've been given in movies and television. We celebrate the growth of Latina representation and spotlight the shows pushing forward - including 'One Day at a Time', 'Made in Manhattan', and 'Euphoria'.
We don't stop at Hollywood's door - we talk about the real-world implications too, the stereotype-laden expectations and fetishization of Latinas that seep into everyday life. And we're not shying away from hard truths - we're confronting the grim reality of current immigration policies, especially the horrific measures in Texas. It's not just a conversation about media, it's a conversation about our lives, our culture, and the world we want to see. Tune in as we share our thoughts, experiences, and hopes for a more inclusive and fair representation of Latinas.
This is Latina's State of Mind, a podcast created by Latinas for all audiences, where we can share our experiences about love, life and everything in between. Hello hello and welcome to another episode of Latina's State of.
Speaker 2:Mind Welcome to our fabulous episode.
Speaker 1:Fabulous.
Speaker 3:Fabulous.
Speaker 1:We have a fun topic to talk about. I think it's an interesting one for us, for sure it's an interesting one, yeah. Yeah, so we're going to talk about Latina representation in Hollywood.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you guys feel like it's getting better?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think so, I don't think so. No, okay, I think in, I don't know. We've been here for so long that I should be heavier.
Speaker 1:The representation should be heavier, but okay so, but I'm glad that we're here, okay so yeah, when I first came to the country, I remember that the only people that I would see on the TV that were Latino or Latinas were like cholas, you know, like gangster girls that were really loud and obnoxious or always picking a fight, or like cleaning ladies, and I remember being like, hmm, but there was never like a main character that was Latino. Do you remember like any main characters?
Speaker 3:No, not early on.
Speaker 2:Not early on. The only one that I'm thinking about is Jane Jane the Virgin. Yeah, but I mean that was based on the Latina community. Yeah, so no, was that a good show?
Speaker 1:I remember I remember so good, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I've heard it's really good, but I haven't watched it. Okay, and she's Latina.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, okay, yeah, yeah, she's Puerto Rican, I believe, mm.
Speaker 2:Gina Rodriguez, and she plays Latina in the show as well right, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I meant.
Speaker 3:Sorry, yeah, in the show.
Speaker 1:So I feel like, did you guys ever watch a movie called Real Women have Curves?
Speaker 2:No, I don't. I don't it sounds familiar, but no, I did not watch it. It was like one of.
Speaker 1:America Ferreras first movies.
Speaker 2:I remember it actually, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it just kind of it was about this girl that just kind of lives her life in the United States with like Hispanic mother and family and it just kind of like shows the life that she was fighting for outside of her like culture, but also just like that deep fight within herself to remain still attached to her culture but also kind of move from that to be more independent and to see like to be part of the culture that she's in. And I think I've really identified with that character. But other than that I don't remember like being a teenager and being like oh cool, like I'm like so and so, because there wasn't anybody.
Speaker 3:No, yeah, no, not that I can remember either.
Speaker 2:I don't remember that movie very well but I do remember watching it and at least for me it was difficult, Not difficult, but it was her trying. Yeah, exactly Like you said, like her trying to be her version, but in this community or in the community that she was trying to still be herself, but sort of adapt. Yeah, yeah. That's what I think. I can't remember much of it, but I think that's what I remember from that movie and I don't know. I think she's a great representation because she has worked to become herself.
Speaker 1:And she's in the new Barbie movie. Right, and she's in the new Barbie movie. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so in that movie as well. She's Hispanic in the movie, but she's not this character of, like you said, a Chola, or not being able to, or exotic. You know, she's just an employee, she's just another person, because guess what, that's who?
Speaker 3:we are. Yeah, I think that's how it started. It was just like the cleaning lady, the nanny, you know that kind of thing. And then I think we started seeing more Latinas who were more like the sexy Latina type you know, like Sofia Vergara and stuff like that. I think even with Solma Hayek for a little bit when she started it was just like all the spicy Latina.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exotic.
Speaker 3:The exotic. You know that all of us relate to, and then now I think we're kind of seeing more differences in. You know the reality of what we are. That not necessarily being a Latina is like the most important thing about a person. It's part of who we are, but we're so much more than that, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a wonderful way to put it because, yeah sure, we have this culture and it's amazing and it's great.
Speaker 3:We celebrate it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:But it's not all of us. You know, we have some sort of education, we have some sort of knowledge and trade or certification and trade. There's so many things to us than just being that exotic, different kind of looking person.
Speaker 1:I think for me it has been really interesting to like because we talk about, like Hollywood representation of Latinos and Latinas and it's really hard to like connect sometimes with the representation that they do bring up. Like you were saying, you know, like Solma Hayek, I don't look like Solma Hayek. I wish I did. I don't look like Sofia Vergara. I don't act like Sofia Vergara. There's little things that make sense because we are from the same community and like Latino community is pretty similar, but then I feel like it puts such a pressure on a lot of women to look a certain way and to act a certain way. So, like I feel like. Then I remember like online dating and stuff and guys being like, ooh, the spicy Latina.
Speaker 3:Even like in jobs or things like that.
Speaker 1:You know that's what people expect from you to see this like fiery person and we can be, but not all the time in all places.
Speaker 2:I don't want to be fetishized about that either, and I feel like a lot of times that happens like oh, she's going to be working here, so the thing is, she's got curves, she's got this, that, whatever. And so I'm going to think of her as a different kind of individual than just a person, you know. Yeah, it's sad and unfortunate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it takes away from like who you are to put you in like this weird category of like, like you said, like a weird fetish place. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I do wish that there was more representation and more just, positive, more positive or neutral representation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:Because, like you said, we've been exaggerated for so long. The Chola that likes to be loud, that likes to be, that likes to fight, that likes to you know everything, a lot of negative contentions towards it. I wish there was more like a neutral, like just get to know the person. Okay, great, they're Hispanic, they might speak another language, they might have a more knowledge about a different culture, but just communicate with that person as you would with another individual.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think now we're seeing a lot more representation where people are truly bilingual, whereas before it was like like we were saying you know the mate, or whatever. They could barely speak English.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Or their accent was super thick, which that's fine. There's that's not a problem. There is a lot of us who have a thick accent, but also there's a lot of us who don't have an accent anymore. So I think it's kind of nice to see that you know we can speak without an accent or with or without Right. Right.
Speaker 2:And it doesn't determine the level of intelligence Exactly. Yes, that's super important, that's a great point. Yes, what if you and the person speaks another language? They're already beating you. I don't want to say it like that, but she's not wrong.
Speaker 1:I remember like having a conversation with somebody that was like making fun of my co workers about like her not being able to pronounce a word, and I was just like, well, she knows that word in Spanish and she knows it in English. How many times do you know that?
Speaker 3:word.
Speaker 1:And it was just like oh, you're right. Like the person was like oh, I'm sorry, like I didn't mean to come off that way.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's just those thoughts you know like yeah, get yourself together.
Speaker 3:But even for us, or at least for me, that's how it was. I mean, I think I'm a quiet person.
Speaker 2:We would agree with that too, yeah.
Speaker 3:And I feel like a lot of it stemmed from mean up wanted to say something wrong when I was speaking.
Speaker 2:English when I was first learning the language.
Speaker 3:So I feel like, now that I'm older and wiser, yes, I feel like. Yeah, like if I have an accent or if I can't say a word, like that's totally fine, it doesn't mean anything in the sense that it doesn't make me, like Diana said, any less intelligent or knowledgeable or Capable, you know yeah, yeah, I've kind of dropped the shame about that too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, same thing. I, you know, stop myself from saying certain things because of what if I don't say it correctly? Yeah and it stops you from sharing your opinion, and that's very unfortunate as well, but it's happened because of one instance or another, and I at least, yes, as I got older, as Learned or stopped myself from not sharing information, just because I'm not gonna say it correctly, you know, like if I didn't say a word correctly, wow, deal with it exactly how crazy is that and you can say hey, this is how you say that or this is how that's pronounced, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm just gonna say something really rude right now. People don't even understand pronouns.
Speaker 3:That's just part of the English vocabulary. It's not a political political thing.
Speaker 2:It's not a Just part of the English vocabulary. English speaking people would learn that.
Speaker 1:Wait, you got ahead of your daily shit, oh my bad, oh my bad.
Speaker 1:Just kind of going back to Jane the Virgin, one of the things I loved about the show is I was Literally a novella, like it was a novella in English, and the characters were just like over exaggerated but they were your simple, like characters they were.
Speaker 1:So Jane, just she just wanted to be a teacher and she was going to school to be a writer and a teacher and like she had a pretty Like chill, simple life. She worked at a hotel. Like her, her life was pretty simple and it was like, like you said, diana, I was just kind of like it represented us, just kind of wanting to go get an education and like striving for something, having a Second job, having jobs and working and going to school and what that came with. And then her dad turns out to be like a Crazy movie star and like. So it's such a fun like there's such a funny different show that talked about different like Latino cultures but also brought in some like Other cultures. So like when I watched Jane, I always felt like I connected with her, like you could be a friend, yeah, cuz she was just like someone else that was going through the struggle of going to school and working full-time.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:I could connect with her like. So that was one of the first positive Representations I saw, that I was just like yeah, like that's me, like that's me trying to go to work, and that's me trying to go to school, and that's me Like yeah yeah, I identify with Jane. Yeah, yeah so I think that was like a good positive one. Did you guys ever watch a movie called fools Russian with Salma?
Speaker 2:I love my.
Speaker 1:But I feel like her. She was a little firing, but also it wasn't like I don't know. I feel like that was also one of the lighter versions of Salma Hayek there.
Speaker 2:Um, okay, I struggle with this one because, okay, great, a Caucasian man fell in love with a Hispanic woman and she was fiery and she was Exciting and different, but it was also more normalized, I guess. Yeah, it was more normalized the relationship. So there was instances where it showed her like as a character, like too much of a character, but I liked it because it wasn't that bad. Yeah, and this is an old movie.
Speaker 1:This is super old. I think that was like the lighter version of a Latina. I'd seen up until this point, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:But also Sanma Hayek has been like a fighter about this.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she has been attempting to make sure that she's not just a character, and it doesn't mean that that doesn't exist, right Like in our course. Some of us are fiery not me, but like there's a lot of that in our community too, so it's fine that that's represented. But the thing is that all of us we should have like the differences and all the nuances and who we are and what we represent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:There's another show I used to watch. Let me pull it up here so I get the name right. One day at a time Did you guys watch?
Speaker 1:it. Oh, I only watched a few episodes. My family, they were all about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's based on like a Cuban American family and it's a single mom. She's a vet, she's Latina, she has two kids. Her mom lives with them, so it's like a lot of who we are. And then her daughter is gay. So I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing, Like I can actually see.
Speaker 2:Oh, a gay Hispanic Real conversations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and how difficult it was for her.
Speaker 3:And deep conversations, yeah, and they talk about so many different things, like I was saying, like she's a single mom she talks about like PTSD and things like that for being a vet, and so that was such a good show. I feel like everyone should watch that one.
Speaker 1:But I've noticed that when we connect with those shows. There was a show on Netflix called gentrified. That was actually really good. And it only made it for two seasons. Yeah, I think this one was only that's, I feel like those shows don't last very long, and I don't understand why.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they don't catch the eye of the majority of the people. Yeah, like just they may catch the eye of the Hispanic communities but not the Caucasian communities because they might not be interested.
Speaker 3:But I think because there's the misconception that it's not going to represent who they are when in reality, because we can encompass so many different things, so many people can see themselves in those relationships and in those the struggles Exactly. Yeah, whatever it was like relationships or anything like that. It's for everyone. But I think maybe they see it and they're like oh, that's not me without knowing. Oh, actually I'm going through the exact same thing.
Speaker 1:We're all that more similar than what we.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean we may speak a different languages, but our struggles are a lot like a lot of the time the same yes and I think, I don't know. I hope we get. I hope we get to a point that we get to understand that about each other, because I think that's going to help us more than just the Latin representation in the in Hollywood or in other. I think it's going to help a lot with our communities and understanding each other and celebrating the differences.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that Just here sitting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was something that I wanted to mention Did you guys ever watch Made in Manhattan?
Speaker 1:What JLo? Yes, how did you feel about that? I thought it was dumb, I don't remember.
Speaker 3:I think I liked it, but I don't really remember.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I liked it, but it's like a white man saving a woman or that kind of feel that the camera yeah. And she had to pretend to be someone else.
Speaker 3:Someone else to be like. Was he engaged? Was that the one or was that a different one?
Speaker 2:Which he was a politician, yeah, and she pretended to be rich. She was trying on a dress or something when he walked in and found her with and then she had to continue that and that's how he liked her. So it's kind of see like oh, you like us when you look like this, but you don't like us or even look at us when we're in the made outfit or in their work outfit. I would say that yeah. Should I tell you about the information that I found about the representation?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, so this is a quote from an article Latino characters in speaking and speaking roles in. I'm sorry, let me repeat that one more time Latino characters in speaking roles in 1300 films examine. Increased in the decade leading up to the leading up to 2017. It peaked in 2017 at 7.2% representation, but in the next two years it dropped to just under 6% and by 2022, it actually showed that the number had still unchanged, not changed at all. So, out of whatever percentage, we were only covering 6% at the moment.
Speaker 1:That's crazy For as many of Latino people that live in this country. Like you, would think that there would be way more. I was expecting like 20 something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, but hold on, Despite being poorly represented, represented on big and small screens. Latinos audiences are responsible for 20 to 30% of revenue across the entertainment industry. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:That's even more crazy.
Speaker 2:We're not being represented, but yet here we are consuming and, you know, responsible for 30% at least of the market. That's a lot. That's a lot. We're providing a lot and still not receiving any representation.
Speaker 3:I think that kind of shows that we can help. Some people make a lot of money if they're willing to put us on. Tv Clearly.
Speaker 2:Like, not only you're going to get our money like I mean when I say our, I mean the Hispanic or Latino community money but you're also going to receive the rest of the cultures in this country or worldwide, I don't know, depends on the show. Yeah for sure. That's crazy, right. It's very unfortunate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm sitting here thinking about like in the last few years, like how many characters I've seen. The only really one I can think of is the Sofia Regatta, one in Modern Family. She's hilarious yeah like it's a great show. Maddie from.
Speaker 2:Euphoria. I kind of like that one because it doesn't you know like it's ambiguous, like she could be. She might not be Hispanic.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But she's just her regular awesome self.
Speaker 1:I love her, by the way, but other than that I can't really think of any. Yeah, trying to think of like different shows on TV right now that I can.
Speaker 3:What was Carla Sosa in? Was she playing a Latina? I think she was.
Speaker 1:I know the show you're talking about.
Speaker 3:I can't remember what it's called.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't remember either. See, that's hard for me because she's like, really like skin Latina and blue-eyed. So does she have lice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, but she's still Latina, but she is still Latina. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because even in like, if we move away from Hollywood and think about like Televisa and Telemundo, that's yeah, that's the thing that you know like it starts from there. Because a lot of the representation or like the women or the main characters they show usually have blue-eyed, blonde hair, and I'm like yeah, there are a lot of Mexican, latin people that have that light skin and blue eyes, but that's not the majority of us.
Speaker 2:No, we're all brown, and you know what people find us so shocking that there are black or African-American. Well, african Mexicans After Latinos, after Latinos, gracias. That people are so shocked by this, yeah, and they're barely starting to learn the history, or that these people, and unfortunately these people are not represented either either in Hollywood or in the Mexican or not Mexican, but like in the Hispanic TV shows and everything like that, and people are barely finding out about these individuals as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:When? Guess what? They've been here since they were unfortunately illegally brought over. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that'd be more like a Zoe Saldana type of character. Yeah, she's been doing a lot of good roles where she portrays a Latina, but that's not really the main point about her character, like the main thing that we should look at.
Speaker 1:And, I think, a lot of like her roles. I didn't know she was Latina until, like, she was in a movie called I don't remember where. I don't remember what the movie was called, but she was like the daughter of a drug lord and her family was killed and all that.
Speaker 2:And we were just mentioning that, how it's elegant or fancy or important to be a Caucasian drug lord or drug narco or whatever, but it's ghetto or bad or bad to be a Hispanic drug lord drug dealer Like it's bad either way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:They're still hurting a lot of people. It's bad. It doesn't matter how they deal it or where they deal it, it's still bad. Yeah, or how it's bad to speak a second not bad, but how it's tacky to speak a second language if it's Spanish or if it's a poor person, but it's, it's elegant or fancy to do it if you're white.
Speaker 1:If you're speaking.
Speaker 2:French.
Speaker 3:Or if you're white and you're speaking Spanish.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's your second language.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I don't know. That has a lot to do with it as well, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I feel like until we see more positive representation in media and all sorts of media, we're not going to be able to really show who we truly are.
Speaker 2:Like, and you know, the unfortunate thing is that these people either producers, screenwriters, writers, anything like that they're not getting the support that other individuals get. Yeah, so there might be people out there fighting for this, but they're not given the chance. So how to? I always saw this.
Speaker 3:Yes, I think it's going to start slowly changing. I think of, like Reese Witherspoon taking on, like creating more movies and materials that are geared towards women, because that's her point of view. I think we're going to have to just hopefully get some Latinas who are in that same position. I know Eva Longoria has done some stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so just kind of, you know, supporting them and the creation of characters and movies and shows and whatever that are representing us and more focused on us.
Speaker 1:I think Sandra was like one of the main producers for the George Lopez, the old George Lopez show.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I had no idea she was in the show. Yeah, she was in the show for a couple episodes. I don't remember that.
Speaker 2:But she was like one of the main. I remember the show but I don't remember her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was the one that, like, signed him and helped him get that show, yeah so we need people like that.
Speaker 2:Exactly. We need more people like that that notice their privilege, that you know. They say, oh, I have the privilege to make a difference. Let me do something about it, Right? Sure Dang yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's go to our favorite segment. Let's take a little break from this. What about if we do some a little bit of like that Diana's daily shit, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, here we go again. Are you upset today? Yeah, this is a very it's an upsetting and sad story. Ok, I know Today we're going to talk about what's happening in Texas, in the I believe it's a Rio Grande, where there are buoys set up.
Speaker 2:These are the inflatable balloons to help measure something at the water levels I can't remember exactly, but they also help individuals who are crossing the border to kind of like a lifeline sort of thing to hold on to something when the current is really strong.
Speaker 2:What the current governor is doing is setting saw like circular saw, like items and metals between these buoys so people don't hold on to them. And I believe I saw that there was already a life lost because a person wasn't able to hold on. And I mean, I understand immigration is a difficult topic. Immigration is, it's rough to see I'm guessing it's very difficult to see it in your state, but that shouldn't mean that you, this, that you this fake border should be limiting people from coming over and it should also be harming or shouldn't be hurting or killing people. So it's a it's a very unfortunate story that this is happening and it's very unfortunate that this individual is angry at all of these people just trying to, you know, get a better life, and I don't know it doesn't always mean that these people are going to stay in your state. First of all, these individuals are just looking for a better life.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's it, and so it's. It's very unfortunate to learn that they are harming or deliberately, because I mean, if you're setting this up, you're deliberately trying to harm these people who you probably will never see in your life. It's cruel.
Speaker 3:It's cruel, exactly, it's inhumane.
Speaker 2:It's inhumane. And unfortunately he's not doing anything about it and no one is going to do anything about it. We can't talk about it to at least warn people that this is happening in that area? But yeah, it's just, it's very sad. It's a sad topic because I wish it wasn't happening. I wish it wasn't. There was a better way to deal about this. And I don't know. I'm just mad at that. We take care of these fake borders so much.
Speaker 1:Yeah like.
Speaker 2:First of all, Texas was part of Mexico. Texas is Mexico, yeah you know, Arizona, new Mexico, part of Colorado I'm not sure if part of Colorado, of most of Colorado and California, nevada and Utah guess what? That was Mexico. So it's just people coming back to the land that belongs to them and I think I saw that article.
Speaker 1:I've seen a few articles on this and I had to go look at these buoys to see what they were talking about and it's just sad, like you said, it's just sad and it's also really angering because, yeah, there's no right way to come to this country, there's no right way to to get your family in a better place, and there's no right way, there's just not a way right right now. There's no way but killing people on the way here.
Speaker 1:It's also not the way no like knowing, fully knowing that these people are coming in with children and Trying their best and doing what they can to survive, like and what you do, instead of like Detaining them whatever it is, you put basically death traps.
Speaker 2:Yeah, stop them like that's. That's not okay. You prefer killing a person than letting them live in your country, in your state. It's not even your country and yours quote-unquote state I I don't know. I think it's very unfortunate, it's very sad. I wish we had a solution for this, but Certainly hurting or killing people is not the solution. Yeah for sure. So I don't look at that guy.
Speaker 3:Moral of the stories. Moral of the story.
Speaker 2:Don't try to limit someone else's chances or opportunities because it Somehow you might think it will bother you or it will alter your life. Yeah, it most likely will not.
Speaker 1:It's very likely a lot of the time, so alter it for the better.
Speaker 2:Exactly guess who cooks your food at every single restaurant, mm-hmm, not just the Hispanic or the Mexican restaurants. Every single restaurant? Yeah, so I don't know. It's tough, it's a tough conversation.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's, that's a hard one, because, regardless of how you feel about immigration, I feel like that's just Sad and inhumane. Like you were saying that, yeah, you know, you're not. You know that people are gonna die because of that.
Speaker 1:And people are okay with it. They're okay with this. You're a terrible person, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Don't all lives matter.
Speaker 1:She took it there.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, but weren't you saying this a couple years ago? Yeah all lives matter. Well, let's revisit that conversation. Let's make sure they all matter.
Speaker 3:Oh dang.
Speaker 2:Anyways, that's my rant for today. I'm sorry if it was a little low, if it was a little sad, but I hope this stops if you're in Texas listening to us. Thank you for listening to my quick rant about this.
Speaker 1:Wow, I know any closing thoughts on our Latino representation. I.
Speaker 3:Hope it just keeps getting better. It looks like from that article that you found Ayana. It's just like stagnant right now. It's not really moving. So hopefully we can see more and more Latinas and Latinos, you know yeah playing different roles that kind of show all the differences that we, that we are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can have both. I'm gonna say this regular roles, you know, doesn't have to be the Latino role.
Speaker 3:Yeah, neutral, kind of like everything before that. Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 2:But it can also be a role that celebrates the culture that's fine. That's totally okay. Let's just just give us the chance to do anything. Yeah and but then also us as consumers Like, let's support these smaller heck, smaller productions or smaller Actors, actresses and such that need our support.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we're such a big powerful, yeah clearly community. We're giving them revenue but, yeah and if you're an actor, an actress or you're in any type of media, put yourself out there. You're Latino. Go represent us.
Speaker 2:Please Do it. I'm a good good. You know what. We already have plenty of that Only thing that we've been represented not the only thing, but the most.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go out there and make us look good, make us proud.
Speaker 2:Make us proud, Make yourself proud too, yeah we're rooting for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah all of us. Thank you so much for listening and Share your thoughts, yeah.
Speaker 3:All right, we'll see you next time have a good night Love you. Thank you for listening to Latina State of Mind produced by us. Your awesome hosts, diana Senya and Nancy, special shout out to. Jerome, our editor. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram at LSOM underscore podcast and on Facebook at Latina State of Mind. Hasta la próxima.