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What's up me too fam?
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Dominicans. We're at the press line for Mad bills to pay
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and we're talking to the cast and crew behind the movie
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Let's see what they have to say.
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Why was it important for you to be a part of telling
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this story? I think it was really important for me to
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be part of this story because it's a story about a Dominican
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family, a story about like young love,
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family through a Dominican lens.
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It's a story that grew from my background and sort of like
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I grew up in the Bronx and and the character of Rico
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is based on a lot of guys that I grew up around
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who were like hustlers.
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It's a never ending story in New York in the Bronx,
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like we could go back decades in the Bronx and.
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And a lot of times it's not good history,
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so we really want to reflect on the great history of the
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Bronx. In this film,
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like the character he sells Nutcracker cocktails,
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which are like these like homemade moonshine drinks,
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and he basically sells it with his girlfriend and things
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get complicated when she gets pregnant.
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I feel like there could have been like no better cast to
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to bring more authenticity to this whole story.
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They're not enough stories that portray Latinx and Latin people,
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so it was such a pleasure to just be part of that
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And I felt there was.
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The freshness to it that I just like haven't seen in a
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while. You just see like a part of the Bronx,
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a part of New York with us and a Latino community,
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so yeah, it was very important for me to represent my
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people, especially right now during these times when like diversity and
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inclusion are trying to get eliminated so through a story like this
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that takes place in the in the Bronx means everything to me
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you know to really represent and allow you know Latinos,
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Dominican people to see themselves.
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One stereotype you're sick and tired of saying about Latinos on the
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screen. Latinos? Oh,
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hands down, oh we talk so fast we can't understand you
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like stuff like that.
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A lot of Latinos don't own their blackness and I feel like
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it's something that a lot of people need to get educated on
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it. I'm not gonna mention any films by name,
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but like there's there's a particular film.
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Set in the heights that that you know just isn't kind
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of like doesn't really get it.
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Just drama and and toxicity,
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which honestly the film is kind of dramatic and toxic,
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but I would like to be part of something more,
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you know, serious and in a more serious dynamic and in
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this film you get to see,
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you know, black Latinos.
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I hope that you know we we remedy that like moving forward
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and there's more just authenticity and like Latin Latin American stories in
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