IntheHeights actress iamstephbeatz wants the world to see the full breadth of the Latinx experience.
as Mr. de la Vega and Miranda in a cameo as Mr. Piragüero, the"Piragua Guy."
Beatriz spoke glowingly about Grace and her performance in the film, calling the 25-year-old singer"an extremely gifted artist.""Her voice is just... it's like angels on a rainbow sliding down into a lagoon where there's a mermaid and fairies," she marveled."I mean, it's just incredible; her voice is fire... You won't hear her singing on the album yet, but she's incredible.
"One of the things that's most exciting is that in this moment of social justice reckoning -- there's so many levels of it -- but one of the levels that the Latino community really needs to come face to face with, in my personal opinion, is there's a lot of racism and colorism in the Latino community. And part of that is we're from all different places, we're from all different countries, we're from all different parts of [the world]," she said.
"There were times when I watched some of the dance numbers that Jon showed me -- he's incredibly talented, he edits so fast -- and there were times when I watched some of the dance numbers and I was just bawling since I've never seen that onscreen that way," Beatriz shared. "So many of us, so many different kinds of us. Because that's the thing, we're not a monolith. We're not just one type of person and we don't come from just one type of place.
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