I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
I don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I've played lots of different roles, and they've connected with lots of different people.
I've been getting diverse roles.
It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.
It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.
I am very conscious about picking my roles and make sure that they are different.
In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.
I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.
I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.
I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.