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It's beautiful, it's compelling,
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it's action, and it's exactly what we need as a family
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during the holidays. How has your cultural upbringing continued to shape
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you and guide you as a Latina in Hollywood?
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It's, it's hard to describe because it's in the way that
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I conduct myself. I think it's how I can't fake things
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and how I'm very honest.
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You know, I was raised by honest people.
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Zoe brings a mind and a heart that are so emotionally present
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that almost Natiri has evolved in my mind to be more Zoey-like
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in that she doesn't have a filter.
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When she feels something,
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she says it, and if she's got a problem,
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she's going to let you know.
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You're one of the few Latinas in space leading major sci-fi franchises
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in Hollywood. When you step back and,
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and see that legacy forming,
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what does that mean to you?
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It means that we're finally like on a path when it comes
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to science fiction, when it comes to Latinos in art and
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it, it, the expansion of,
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being creatives and being a part of the telling of great stories
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that one day we won't have to always say that we are
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Latinos. You understand?
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Because it's not that I don't I don't like to say that
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I'm Latina, it's just that it has to be earned because
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what I am is a gift and we have to get there
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We have to get there.
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I don't have to say that I'm Latina in space.
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I just want to say that if I'm right for the part
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if I am delivering this character in the way that you
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had. envisioned, then please give me the part,
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but don't give me the part because you have space for a
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Latino in space. You know what I mean?
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Exactly. So I and I love,
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I feel very humbled that I've worked with filmmakers that saw me
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before they saw my culture,
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before they saw the color of my skin or even my gender
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I just want to continue opening those doors for those kinds of
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Of storytellers that are the enablers of,
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of, and, and very much color blind when they're casting
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I, I would love for one day Latinos not to
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have to be so political in their artistic conversations about their art
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because I love talking about my process and but when it comes
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to social justice and social politics,
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like it's it, you know,
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I'm not the gatekeeper.
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I feel like the gatekeepers should be the ones answering that question
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about Latinos in space.
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These films are made without any generative AI on the backs of
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hundreds of talented artists and craftspeople and performers,
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but we're at a really interesting time where,
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it's almost like generative AI is knocking at the door
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of these big budget spectacle films.
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And aside from the labor concerns,
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Let's say environmental concerns with the amount of energy it uses,
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it's water. Do you think that moving forward,
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big budget spectacle films will have to come at the cost of
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the environment? It's an interesting thought.
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I think that the amount of energy that's being consumed by AI
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being broadly applied in all businesses and in students in college and
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just people using it for just everything is going to be a
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major environmental concern. And that's something that we need to look
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at very carefully. I suspect that the entertainment industry is a
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very, very tiny portion of that,
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but that doesn't get us off the hook.
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You know, you're raising an issue that that's an overall ethical
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problem and it's maybe even an existential problem to the extent that
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climate could really sort of take down civilization over the next 100
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years or so. That needs to be addressed.
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I'm more concerned right now with the kind of the ethical guidelines
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around generative AI being used in Hollywood to replace actors,
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to replace writers, to replace artists,
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and that's where we really need some,
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some strong guardrails. Familia,
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me too, you need to see Avatar Fire Nash on the
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big screen in theaters December 19th.
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