'I know I didn't get the job. I really sucked.'
for the first time, and having no clue who he was.
"And I didn't care. I threw the [business] card away," she says."My girlfriend Marian went back and got it. She always joked, 'You owe your entire career to me.' You know, I did audition for. People think that Spike just discovered me and gave me the role. No, he made me work for it."star also recalled her early struggles trying to break into the industry, where a Latino presence was practically nonexistent.
"I don't want her to be canceled, but she told me that if I dyed my hair blond and got a nose job, 'I can get you more jobs. Because you’re not Black,'" she says."I couldn’t believe it. I was like, 'Oh, my goodness. Like, thank you, fired.'"This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors.
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