“To be blunt, it is very hard for anyone who is not white to have a career on Broadway,” radio host Seth Rudetsky said. “It is a major accomplishment for Olivo to be the leading lady in a part played (in the movie) by Nicole Kidman...This is a coup.'
her as “a knockout” in “a performance that sends her into the constellation of great musical actresses.”
Of Puerto Rican and Dominican/Chinese heritage, Olivo has achieved success in an industry with limited opportunities for Latino performers; Latinos comprise“One of the things that made it possible for me to have a career, initially, is that I was one of so few,” Olivo told NBC News. “That was when breakdowns still called for “exotic” actors," she said."Now the cultural landscape is changing, and I look around and see more people who look like me, or who look like they could be my kids, who are prepared and ready to get on stage.”as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for “West Side Story.” She has also appeared in “Hamilton” in Chicago, and on TV series like “The Good Wife” and “Harry’s Law.
Olivo’s casting in “Moulin Rouge” is remarkable because she is portraying a character that was not written as specifically ethnic, inOf this, Olivo comments, “I am bringing my life experience to the role and it just so happens that I am a woman of color and a Latina.”
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