Thank you, Ms. Rodriguez for reminding us that just because you are rarely seen that you do not have to accept any role or image to be seen. Also, If you stand for nothing you fall for anything, and we will NEVER stand for women being portrayed so poorly being held up as heroines because they have a certain skin tone! Take it from the former Ms. Beverly Hills herself. Congratulations! So well deserved! I became an actor to change the way I grew up. The way I grew up, I never saw myself on screen. I have two older sisters. One’s an investment banker. The other one is an doctor, and I never saw us being played as investment bankers. And I realized how limiting that was for me. I would look at the screen and think, ‘Well, there’s no way I can do it, because I’m not there.’ And it’s like as soon as you follow your dreams, you give other people the allowance to follow theirs. And for me, to look on younger girls and to say, ‘Well, Gina’s like me, maybe not necessarily the same skin color, maybe not necessarily the same background, but like that’s me. I’m not alone. I can do it too.’ So every role that I’ve chosen has been ones that I think are going to push forward the idea of my culture, of women, of beauty, my idea of liberating young girls, of feeling that they have to look at a specific beauty type. And I wasn’t going to let my introduction to the world be one of a story that I think has been told many times. Gina Rodriguez https://youtube/watch?v=veftkYtLVBM
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 05:42:52 +0000
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