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America Ferrera Delivers Powerful Speech About Importance Of Representation At Critics Choice Awards
America Ferrera was presented with the SeeHer Award at the Critics Choice Awards and delivered a powerful speech just like she did in the Barbie movie. Margot Robbie presented Ferrera with the acco…
Once on stage, Ferrera opened up about receiving the honor at the gala and growing up as a “first-generation Honduran-American girl in love with TV, film, and theater who desperately wanted to be a part of a storytelling legacy that I could not see myself reflected.” Ferrera said that when she started in the industry, “it seemed impossible that anyone could make a career of portraying fully-dimensional Latina characters” and gave credit to writers, directors, producers, and executives “who were daring enough to rewrite outdated stories and to challenge deeply entrenched biases.” Ferrera then dedicated some words to director Greta Gerwig “for proving through your incredible mastery as a filmmaker that women’s stories have no difficulty achieving cinematic greatness and box office history at the same time.
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