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- The Latina community has such a large umbrella.

- We're Mexican American, and that's who we are.

Modal verbs - A2

JENNY LORENZO: This is guayaba. But this, I don't know.

- Empanada. Esa es la que estoy diciendo.

JENNY: Yeah, so we're having a conversation.

like, Latin American Caribbean culture possible.

And so, that's why, like, when I started traveling later on

with my family to, like, Tennessee and stuff,

people were like, "I like your accent." I'm like, "What accent?" You know, um.

- Yeah, and I, I felt like you felt in the sense that being in the border,

And it was, like, until I started college.

And then some people would ask me, where you're from?

And then they were like, "No, where you're from,"

'cause th-there's an accent. And then I was like...

It's like, "Okay, so where am I from? What should I say?

Is it more accepted if I just say, 'Mexico, I'm Mexican?'"

But then you, you have, you know that part as well of being Mexican American

and finding that common ground between the two.

ANTHONY NGUYEN: So, when you land your, like, acting roles

do you feel like, "I gotta put on for my people?"

And, for me, I don't, I don't like just acting.

And I think it's because a lot of us, if you notice a lot of, like,

Hispanic, Latinx actors right now that are making it big,

they're not just wearing the one hat anymore.

- He used to have to sneak out of his house

to film YouTube videos with me. I swear. JENNY: No!

- Uh, like, we would sch-- we would schedule a shoot,

and then he would lie to his mom and say,

"Oh, yeah, I'm just gonna go hang out with friends

and, like, go to the movies or something."

- We can make big waves, um, even if you do start on the internet.

- And my grandmother always pretend that she didn't like telenovelas,

- I know. And I remember Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real...

about, like, reenactments of, like, real stories that people sent in.

but it kinda-- it was, it w-- kinda bored me.

And I also felt like there was-- The representation was...

JENNY: Mm-hm. - ...just not there for me.

Like, I just remember being like, "I don't know," like, "This is cool, but

would always watch novelas... like, the whole schedule.

- All of them. Todas. - All of them. Marimar.

- Then I come home from school and El Gordo y la Flaca was always on.

El Gordo y la Flaca was always on, so, like, they kinda felt like family

- Funny how telenovelas made an impact for all of us.

Like, growing up, it's, like, what everybody would watch.

And especially, when you mentioned Rebelde

as a teenager trying to see where you belong.

It was easier, especially since I grew up in, in Mexico during that time,

that I would do on Gossip Girl, for example.

Like, I would watch it and I liked it, but that's the thing about representation.

that would, like, look like me or that had a story similar to mine.

I remember I called my mom, and I was like, "Mom, I wanna be a sports reporter."

and, and the media aspect of it, the storytelling.

And then my mom was like, "Well, there you go. That's awesome."

She's like, "Imagine now that being your job and getting paid for it

when you're just, like, watching games on TV all the time."

- [laughs] Well, that's great that they were so supportive.

- Is he so proud? - My dad is my number one fan.

- Speaking of family and, like, family, you know, do they even understand?

'Cause, like, for example, my family, they're supportive,

but they didn't really get it. They were like,

"Oh, es que a ella le gustan las películas. No se."

I mean, I think now they understand more that I'm a director

and, like, you know, going to film festivals with me

But I wonder, for you guys, like, what has it been--

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