.ChristinaMilian: 'I think when people are patient, and when you're not expecting something, [it] just kind of hits you like, wham. That's what I love about [making rom-coms], and I feel true life kind of emulates the same thing.'
. The first is a rom-com released by Netflix in 2019 that tells the story of Gabriela Diaz, a San Francisco designer who wins a deteriorating inn in New Zealand. There, she gets over a non-committed ex-boyfriend by restoring the inn and falling for the man who helps her, the bereaved Jake Taylor . “I liked that because it was just so goofy and had these really funny moments," she says."The director was so much fun to work with.
While we are seeing more Black Latina actors being cast in films and TV series, many portray non-Latine characters. Take Milian’s own role as Paris in, for instance. Leading roles in rom-coms that center Latine stories are often given to; when Afro-Latinas are cast, their culture and ethnicity are largely removed.
“That's something I've always talked about, the fact that [the entertainment industry] always tries to either categorize you in one thing and not the other or something," Milian says."We're such a mixed variation of each country and place that the more the representation, the more the understanding, the more doors that are open for other girls that are just like me that are looking up to what I do. And that's my dream, because I didn't have a lot of that growing up.
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