America Ferrera on Child Lucia Viewing Ugly Betty

When Ferrera was a teen, she had her very first expert audition for a business.

” I was this little, brown, chubby valley woman who spoke, you understand, like a valley woman,” Ferrera, who was born in Los Angeles and is the happy child of Honduran immigrants, stated in aninterview for the 72nd Emmys “I strolled in, did my audition. The casting director took a look at me and she resembled, ‘That’s terrific. Um, can you do that once again however this time sound more Latina?”

Ferrera questioned if the casting director was asking her to do the audition in Spanish. “She resembled, ‘No, no no. Do it in English however simply, you understand, like, sound more Latina,'” she remembered. “I am a Latina, and this is what I seem like.”

Ferrera was dismissed and informed her household about the audition. “‘ They desired you to speak in damaged English,'” she remembered them stating. “‘ They desired you to seem like a chola. What did you believe was going to occur? They were going to, you understand, have you starring in the next function for Julia Roberts?’ And I resembled, ‘Yeah, that is what I believed.'”

However Ferrera didn’t let this experience stop her. “That awareness for me,” she stated, “has actually sustained me to produce more chance for little brown ladies to meet their skill and their dream.”