"Now that it's out and people are kind of connecting to it, I feel like it's going to allow other filmmakers and studios to say, I want to hire writers to tell stories that connect to this character."
PS: That ties into what Eva Longoria had to say about the importance of Latinos showing up not only in front of but also behind the camera.
DC: For Umbrella, you know, Diego in the comic books is blond and caucasian, it seems. And I didn't think about it too much, Chris, while I was doing the role, what was his heritage and all these things, because obviously he was adopted. But I did feel it at certain points. One of the writers or someone wrote in season one that got cut out, that Diego had, he said something that referenced being Hispanic. And I was very happy that it got cut out, because the truth is, Diego was never raised in that culture: he was raised as an entity behind a philanthropist who was using him through child abuse, and trauma, and all these things.
So I never thought about it in that sense: I thought this guy wouldn't even speak Spanish. Now that it's out and people are kind of connecting to it, I feel like it's going to allow other filmmakers and studios to say, I want to hire writers to tell stories that connect to this character. Or, I want to hire directors that can give me a world where I can tell a story. And it doesn't have to be a story about a Hispanic, or a Latino story, but a universal story. And to notice that there is so much talent in our community, a pool of talent that we're still just scratching the surface of.
