An Ode to America Ferrera's Trailblazing Career
When Ferrera was a teenager, she had her first professional audition for a commercial.
"I was this little, brown, chubby valley girl who spoke, you know, like a valley girl," Ferrera, who was born in Los Angeles and is the proud daughter of Honduran immigrants, said in an. "I walked in, did my audition. The casting director looked at me and she was like, 'That's great. Um, can you do that again but this time sound more Latina?"
Ferrera wondered if the casting director was asking her to do the audition in Spanish. "She was like, 'No, no no. Do it in English but just, you know, like, sound more Latina,'" she recalled. "I am a Latina, and this is what I sound like." Ferrera was dismissed and told her family about the audition. "'They wanted you to speak in broken English,'" she remembered them saying. "'They wanted you to sound like a chola. What did you think was going to happen? They were going to, you know, have you starring in the next role forBut Ferrera didn't let this experience stop her.
Despite the movie's huge success, she didn't see the change she had hoped for. "I watched as very little happened," she continued. "There was no watershed. No one in the industry was rushing to tell more stories about the audience that was hungry and willing to pay to see them."Patrick Harbron/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty ImagesFans continued to witness Ferrera's talents both in movie theaters and on their TVs at home.
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