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Another Golden Globe winner...America Ferrera is making strides for us all in the industry. Kudos to her...and love this quote from her re. latina women:
"I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie."
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I met America when she did Real Women Have Curves and at NALIP, the Producer's Academy in Arizona..(If you're an aspiring Latino producer you should join NALIP! She is the nicest girl, truly. She was only 18 at the time of the conference and went with her Mom, who would stay out and party with us. How cool are Latina Mom's that go everywhere with their daughter. Self esteem has a lot to do with parental love. America seems to have that in abundance. She was already a star to me for being so talented and down to earth.
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I have never seen the tv series Ugly Betty, I don´t´live in the US. But when I saw this girl in the Golden Globe Awards I thought she´s beautiful, and sexy.
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I love the story from trinazb about America and her mom partying together! I'm proud to say if I won a Golden Globe my mother would be out partying with me all night long, tambien!!!! I agree completely about America's "aura" - I've never met her in person but loved her in RWHC and was in tears when she delivered her eloquent, heartfelt, and wise acceptance speech!
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America, America - you are showing the true face of an all-american girl! Proud, strong, and compassionate!
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So cool to hear wonderful things about my gal America. Huge fan of hers, and I hope she knows how beautiful she is. In the meanwhile I'm doing all I can to drop 20 lbs. She is a star!!!! She carries an hour scripted show on her shoulders, and keeps us captivated for the whole show, just like she did for RWHC. That is what a star does, captures our attention. Awesome name too - brings tears to my eyes just thinking about her mom naming her.
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Here's a great interview that i found online...really cool!
From Mi Gente.com
America Ferrera's success is an example of great things that come out of left field. Earthily attractive and intelligent, she is nonetheless far from the Hollywood casting cliche a fact she used to brilliant advantage when she starred in 2002's groundbreaking indie film, "Real Women Have Curves," a daring and unconventional exploration about the cultural and political issues surrounding women, weight and body image. Praised by critics for her natural ability, television parts on "CSI," "Touched by an Angel," and film roles in "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," and "Lords of Dogtown," soon followed.
This fall Ferrera, 22, will once again challenge the status quo of beauty as the star of ABC TV's "Ugly Betty" (Thursdays, 8pm) a fast paced comedy based on the Columbian telenovela hit "Betty La Fea."
With her large red rimmed, granny glasses, exaggerated shimmering braces, and Austin Powers meets Tijuana tourist trap fashion sense Betty Suarez (Ferrera) finds her self with a new dream job in publishing with legendary fashion magazine Mode. Butt she is soon is overwhelmed and surrounded by treacherous power hungry fashionistas who view her first with comic disdain, and later, as a threat to be removed like an un-botoxed wrinkle when she saves her bosses hide in a crucial client meeting.
In a recent USA Today article, the actress described her latest role as a " reverse Cinderella." Fererra is charming and perfectly cast as Betty but there is no small set of expectations for Ugly Betty or producer Salma Hayek.
During a recent telephone interview, Ferrera spoke about her affinity and hopes for the series.
MG: The inevitable question: is there any Betty in you?
America Ferrera: Yes, I think that Betty exists in me, and I think she exists in everyone in a way...those moments where we are extremely vulnerable or feeling out of place, like an underdog.
MG: For those who don't know the concept but just hear the name Ugly Betty, what would you like to tell them?
AF: That it's not about taking an ugly duckling and turning her into a swan. Most people think that the best thing a girl can try and do to fit in is to evolve into that perfect woman; that beautiful thing that gets the man and gets the good job and the only way you do that is by, in the classic sense of Cinderella, turning into like the bell. You know getting the dress, and fitting into the [glass slipper] and all of that B.S. But I think that this is a much more realistic way of how one can triumph without completely changing who they are.
MG: How do you imagine Betty evolving as the show proceeds in the coming months?
AF: Certainly, by the end of the series she's not going to be who she was in the pilot. But I also think that physically, a lot of people you know are sitting around and waiting like OK, so when's the makeover part come in, when's Betty going to lose her braces and her glasses and I get frustrated because that's not what this show is about.
MG: In the pilot, despite her desire to succeed, Betty is clearly out of her element and not what people expected. In your own acting career have you had that experience?
AF: Yes, when I don't get to even prove whether or not I'm capable of it mainly because of what I look like and that's not just me. That's frustrating to me.
MG: Does Betty change her perspective about the nature of image from working in a fashion magazine?
AF: I think so. There's a lovely episode coming up where Betty sees how a model--who, you know, looks wonderful in person--not even she is good enough for the image that people are looking for.
Is there a message the show sends to Latinas?
AF: You know I think that's what's the most inspiring about this show: we have a character who is a hero, and she's a female hero but it doesn't have anything to do with what she looks like on the outside. She's not a hero because she's beautiful. She's not a hero because she becomes a princess and saves the day. She's a hero because she has more to offer than just her looks and I think that for a young generation of women it's a wonderful message to send.
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Thanks for the interview post! Much appreciated.
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