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POPSUGAR: What struck me the most about the movie after watching it is how deeply it explores the subject of race and ethnicity between Cubans, Italians, Afro-Latinos, and African Americans. Especially with Ben Affleck's character interracial relationship with Zoe Saldana. Is that something that drew you to the project after reading the script as an Afro Latino yourself?
Miguel: Yeah, absolutely. Aside from Live by Night being an amazing story about love, and about revenge, and all the action in the movie, I think that was probably the biggest thing that drew me to the story. The connection to how much race has been involved in so much of our history. Also, how we've overcome that as Latinos, as Afro-Latinos, and as African-Americans. As much as the tension has been apart of our history, we've overcome it in so many ways. And I think showing that history in this film was one of the things that I thought was really cool, and I wanted to be a part of it.