"Preferably with an accent, so there's no confusion" 😂 I love Gina. Call it out!

The problems Afro-Latinos face in Hollywood (and elsewhere) are very real. It must be exhausting having to explain where you come from over and over again, that's just one of the reasons why teaching real history matters. I do remember Gina played Cleopatra in an episode of Xena:Warrior Princess in 1997, years before getting a role on Alias so there were at least *some* opportunities for her to shine pre-2001.

@beberivera7011

Жыл бұрын

She was also in the show Cleopatra 2525 as well as Angel which was a pretty wild story arc and she was perfect!

@Itcouldbebunnies

Жыл бұрын

@@beberivera7011 I remember that!😃 Oh Jasmine, Well, you came and you gave without taking...

Being Hispanic is a culture, it's not a race. Gina Torres you make Latinos proud. Such a talent.

@creepin93

9 ай бұрын

oh really well tell your masters THERES NO SUCH THING AS A EUROPEAN CONTINENT! that big old continet is actually eurasia but mr white man wanted to pretend he was on an island/continent of his own. now that same albinos got you thinking we are not a people... but the white eastern european jews are a race right? man please...

Such a shame, especially since she has always been and is just gorgeous inside and out. I’ve seen her in so many things but believe she should have been in much more.

Gina Torres was the sparkplug on "Firefly"... brava!

Once people find out that I'm Latina, my blackness gets erased. I absolutely hate that. I'm glad that we're having more conversations about being both.

@donsims1941

Жыл бұрын

So sad that you feel the need to attach your identity to your race 😢 that is the same argument that those white sheet morons use. Guess ignorance has no color. It's almost like color makes zero difference 🤭 RACIST 🫵

@Mary...22-u9j

Жыл бұрын

whats wrong with identifying as a human being or american like the rest of us

@carmenmiranda4590

Жыл бұрын

@@Mary...22-u9j what's wrong with me honoring my heritage?

@Mary...22-u9j

Жыл бұрын

@@carmenmiranda4590 because when i do that i get attacked and called a racist white supremacist...

@carmenmiranda4590

Жыл бұрын

@Mistress Mary this is America, and you are free to feel whatever you feel. Just as I am. Whatever anybody ELSE feels about me, my heritage is whatever it is just as yours is. The problem comes in when one group of people denigrates and dehumanizes another group of people. I'm not claiming to be more or less than anybody else. I'm just claiming the cultures that make me me.

I've been inspired by this beautiful actor since the early 2000s, and I'm happy to see her flourishing and speaking out on this issue.

Jill Biden will not be pleased with all these Breakfast Tacos on TV 🌮

Everyone is an individual....putting people in groups is racist.

As a Afro Latino it always become a discussion well how are you Latino or are you mixed and then it becomes a whole education session

Great conversation. That’s why you need to throw away labels. She is what she is, beautiful at that. I’m Latina. So then it’s what kind of Latina, well we’re all over. My cousins are half Polish, in the 40’s my Uncle married a beautiful white woman. He was a tall, handsome light toned man of Native American and Spanish decent. So really what is the point? At this point in time, opportunities to mix is everywhere. No constraints of travel. Who knows where our ancestors have travelled and what circumstances arose that continued the lives of many more to come. Gina, you’re beautiful and hold yourself gracefully. You go girl!

Gina Torres is So talented, smart and beautiful!

Eva Moreno wanted to play the lead role in the King & I, she told her agent she could do it, they told her "sorry Eva you are a Latina the audience will see you only as a Latina". The part went to Deborah Kerr.

Gina Torres makes me sick. Watch "Suits" season 3 Episode 15. She played the Clarence Thomas role of viciously attacking diversity.

Well duh it’s Hollywood. It’s always been about what you look like. What sells what doesn’t. Money talk ls your feeling walks.

@seanpatrick1243

Жыл бұрын

By what sells you mean to say the propaganda you promote with your Christian nationalism? Have you finished reading the Durham Report yet? What about the Mueller Report? The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee Report on 2016 election interference? Oh, that's right. You're only interested in "evidence" that supports your narrative.

@EricLing64

Жыл бұрын

Mostly. Still need to be able to act of course. Some people may be beautiful, but are still terrible actors. Sometimes it's also up to actually getting a good script and director. Some good actors got burned by being put in really bad movies I think. Some actors just get typecast because of a particular role, or roles. not entirely sure there's anything you can necessarily "fix" because a lot of projects are just godawful cash grabs, like all the remakes of what are considered classics and such.

@seanpatrick1243

Жыл бұрын

@@EricLing64 Just to let you know, this account is a radical, anti-science, Christian nationalist who is constantly writing misinformation.

@LonnieBhi

8 ай бұрын

Well it's time racial stereotypes die, not only are they false, they don't actually reflect real life. Its not fair to erase people & their cultural backgrounds just because simple minded folks haven't got out & left their small towns.

I’m am an African-Native American female who grew up in Brooklyn in the 1950’s. At that time there was no visual representation of me or my family in any entertainment or commercial media. With nothing there that reflects you, then how do you know who are you or where you belong?

@donsims1941

Жыл бұрын

So SAD that you can only relate or see yourself in those who LOOK like you. We used to call that RACIST 😉😂

@Just-Human

Жыл бұрын

Sad you see others as colors.

@winstonsmith6607

Жыл бұрын

Well, times have certainly changed. I grew up on a rez and there's almost no blacks in my area. Yet 50 percent of all main characters and a good 30 percent of all cast members are black. If a person had no idea what the racial demographic of this country was, they would think that America is 30 percent black and about 2 percent brown. My point is that the way liberal Hollywood portrays race is just as effed up now as it was back then

@carloscarlos7044

Жыл бұрын

Hard to believe someone your age can be so immature in thinking that you need to see somone on the screen that is exactly the same race as you in order for you to feel self worth

She is stunning

I have such respect for Gina and I understand stand John’s point I have never seen a Dominican man lead role and if directors have anything to do with it…you never will.

Imagine looking Asian with a Spanish last name… yup , Filipinos can definitely relate

She's smart, stunning and is making us proud

@Dingleberry777

Жыл бұрын

Just like the beautiful Lizzo.

@donsims1941

Жыл бұрын

​@@Dingleberry777 😂 🐳🤢

I think she is a beautiful lady

I thought Erik Estrada fixed that problem years ago?

@orangecat5036

Жыл бұрын

Some People think he's Mexican he's really puerto rican.

I love you, guys!! You are amazing!!!

I like both of these actors. But they just said 6 million Afro latinas in America and then they said the nu ber of lead rules for latinoafro actors and statistically it aligns if not slightly under. Which is expected for a small growing minority. Same with asian Americans. Or Indian Americans. Or native Indian Americans. They're all under represented to white americans but thats because they're statistically significantly less. So it's an issue but it's not as bas as is sometimes made out and films... are nothing compared fo TV and KZread. Where there is a much higher and often over representation of some minority groups. Cool talk either way and both good looking actors need to talk about the lack of leads who are disabled and or ugly...

As an African American, it's confusing for me to understand the difference between Afro Latino and African and African American. Especially because I didn't understand the meaning behind Hispanic. As a kid, I would always ask if I'm supposed to put African American or Black or Hispanic Black not knowing what it meant.

@Carl_Grissom_Sr

Жыл бұрын

You’re a human. That’s all that matters

@izodman

Жыл бұрын

Granular definition seems to always apply to Black and Brown looking people but almost never to Caucasian. I’ve never had to worry about how people will perceive me when I’m outside of the U.S. because other cultures do not define by skin color. Its disappointing but as my departed grandmother would tell me- “walk with your head held high and be proud of who you are, never forgetting your roots, show kindness and always remain humble.”

@Mary...22-u9j

Жыл бұрын

@@izodman the only ones who define by skin color in this country are people of color...they are obssessed with it

@CoreyANeal2000

Жыл бұрын

@mistressmary2559 I only care about it when I'm applying for a job or someone asks me, or I'm trying to separate my identity from another person. Or I'm talking about history or culture. Though I may be curating my answer to what your saying a bit.

@beberivera7011

Жыл бұрын

​@@Mary...22-u9j nope. Funny how I see u trying to push this agenda all over this comment section. You're wrong and it seems to me that you're in your feelings about not being able to express your pride openly about being a white person.

Identity politics just doesn't bring the views anymore.

She look standing to me.

Pleaae. Stop all the lies.there is no problem.

@ecurewitz

Жыл бұрын

There is a problem, just because you don’t have to deal with it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

@Mary...22-u9j

Жыл бұрын

@@ecurewitz its all in your head dude

@beberivera7011

Жыл бұрын

​@Mistress Mary its not tho and ppl that try to convince those of us that literally experience this erasure constantly that its not real, are actually part of the problem. Full stop

@Sarahthelunsford

Жыл бұрын

The take that there's no colorism among the Latine community is wildly blind!

🦆💨

3:08 , seeing yourself in film is very important!! However you’ll have more power impact doing that in Latin America/her homeland then running over to USA (a country where you’re not from) and complaining about not having afro Latino roles when historically Latinos just got here in recent times 🥴

@theabristlebroom4378

Жыл бұрын

BWAHAHAH I'm living in California, part of the USA, and WHERE I'M FROM, the Spanish were here first. (snicker) Keep your prejudices in check sir.

@carloscarlos7044

Жыл бұрын

@@theabristlebroom4378 they were here and after the Spanish American war there not here anymore

@evapeace2385

5 ай бұрын

She was born in America!

"We need more representation for .0001% of the world population." We're so oppressed.

@beberivera7011

Жыл бұрын

So afro Latinos are only "0.0001%" of the global population huh.... go outside and touch some grass. 😂

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

Boycott. Fox 🦊. Sports 🏈

Vote 🗳️. Blue. 🧢

@Mary...22-u9j

Жыл бұрын

not enough illegals and crime for you yet?

@ecurewitz

Жыл бұрын

Always