“And we (Latinos) are always the victims, and we’re always painted in an ‘aye pobrecito' (oh, you poor little thing) light,” said the actor. When she first moved here, she said, she would only get calls to be part of immigrant storylines or cartel-related roles. That's a theme that Barrera had been trying to avoid since she began her crossover acting career in the United States. It was not until months later, when she received the script, that she realized it was a story featuring an immigrant woman fleeing the cartel. “I just saw Benjamin Millepied is making his feature debut, and it’s going to be an adaptation of `Carmen.' That’s all I got,” said the actor. When Barrera first heard of the project, she did not know what the story was about. The film’s score is composed by Nicholas Brittell, with Julieta Venegas, Taura Stinton and Tracy “The Doc” Curry. Carmen reunites there with her late mother’s best friend, Masilda - portrayed by Rossy De Palma - and finds comfort in dance and her growing love for Aidan. Millepied takes audiences on a visually poetic journey as the two make their way to Los Angeles. “And it’s a very complete way of getting to know another human being very quickly.” “When you’re dancing with someone, you get to know their body and you get to know how they move, and you make a fool of yourselves together, and you laugh and you fail and you fall,” she said. Barrera says that building chemistry with Mescal was easy, since they spent hours in dance rehearsals together.
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