When I was asked to change Laurel into a Latina for How to Get Away with Murder, I was terrified, because I thought, no one's going to know how to do this because the American take on my culture is never accurate.

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

There's a lot of lies out there that we should catch and that have taken me a lot of time to sort of see, and reading up on it and getting educated on it. I'm reading a book that's about how images of beauty have hurt women along the decades. It's a very educating but infuriating thing to see, how we don't have equal opportunity because they're demanding so much more.

Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.

I explain that as Latinos, we can also be professionals.