The Latino Waiting Game: When One Role Means Everything – Guest Column
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Editor’s note: The casting of I Love LA co-star and Marty Supreme breakout Odessa A’Zion as Zoe Gutierrez in the A24 adaptation of Holly Brickley’s Deep Cuts triggered backlash online as the character is written as a Jewish woman of Mexican heritage in the 2021 novel. A’Zion, who is Jewish, exited the film on Wednesday, admitting she had accepted the role without having […]