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in an interview published this weekend, Mendes shared that she “was never in love with acting,” despite a career that included roles in “Training Day” and “Once Upon a Time in Mexico,” among other acclaimed films.“I don’t mean this in a self-deprecating way, but I wasn’t a great actress,” she told the outlet. “I had my moments when I worked with really great people.”
“There were some pretty shitty roles,” she said. “That’s all they would say at the beginning — ‘she’s too ethnic for this, too ethnic for that.’ It was so crazy. That was the constant note. Then, at some point, it switched to ‘oh, ethnic is cool now’ or ‘being Latina is cool.’ It gave me energy because it would make me so mad and then I’d get that fuel that I needed.”
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