How so?
I’m on the shyer and quirkier facet. I’m additionally not a assassin! Madison can be a little bit extra strategic than I’m — I don’t make loads of strategic selections like “Ooh, this film goes to make me right into a star, after which I’m going to do this film” — my mind doesn’t operate like that. Generally I want it did.
You may have “Blink Twice,” Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, arising in August. You’re within the Amazon Prime collection “Legal.” And also you’re starring in and government produced “Los Frikis,” impressed by true occasions about youngsters who inject themselves with H.I.V. to flee the oppression of Nineteen Nineties Cuba. Is there extra?
Season 2 of “Andor” is popping out hopefully subsequent 12 months. I believe persons are going to freak after they see it. It’s a lot larger, smarter — Tony [Gilroy, the showrunner] actually outdid himself. After which I’ve “El Sombreron,” which is the primary time I’m going to be working with a Guatemalan director and filming in my dwelling nation — I’m half Guatemalan, half Puerto Rican, and I really feel very a lot half and half. There’s a giant debate on the web over whether or not I’m Puerto Rican or Guatemalan, and I’m very a lot each. You reside in a limbo once you’re blended. If I am going dwelling, they’re like, “You’re not 100% Guatemalan,” and after I come right here, they’re like, “You’re not American,” though I’ve lived right here a giant chunk of my life. After which I am going to Puerto Rico, the place I used to be born, and so they’re like, “However are you Puerto Rican?” I’m a little bit little bit of all the pieces. Folks want to go away me the [expletive] alone.
What has it been wish to be concerned in a “Star Wars” collection, with a fan base that scrutinizes even the tiniest particulars?
It undoubtedly impacts you — I’m not going to lie — since you spend a lot time creating one thing after which somebody can bash it in three seconds. However I actually strive not to concentrate to it. I’ve no management over it.
You had been a dancer in center college and highschool. Would you ever wish to return to the stage?
I actually wish to go! There’s a theater alternative in Miami I would do that fall; it’s a one-woman present referred to as “The Second Girl.” The thought of being in a theater is simply so lovely. Once I was learning on the Lee Strasberg Theater & Movie Institute in New York and auditioning for theater, there weren’t that many alternatives for Latin American actresses — Horton Foote or Tennessee Williams performs had been all white girls, and so they weren’t that open to hiring exterior of that, no less than after I was auditioning. Now, it’s very totally different.
What are your hobbies once you aren’t performing?
I really like boxing. I really feel like I may very well be a contractor in my subsequent life; I really like fixing stuff, roofing, plastering partitions. I’m additionally choosing up the guitar now that nobody’s telling me to! My dad will not be comfortable — he’s like, “Are you kidding me, dude? I begged you to play once you had been a child, and now you wish to play?”