![]() ![]() I’m not going to star in them, just go out and get some amazing new faces, and tell more stories about minorities, with minorities behind the scenes as well. It’s about exposing young women and men, who are going to be the most influential voters in the next couple of elections, to have a bridge to the right information.Īnd now, I’m on NCIS, but I’ve been developing projects and sold three shows to multiple networks. We want to educate Americans about what is actually happening. I’m one of the founders, along with America Ferrera, of Harness. What steps have you taken to create change? Wilmer Valderrama at the West Hollywood EDITION Photo by Adam Morganstern There's just people dying because they don't have their basic needs. Whether you are Republican or Democrat or independent, you have the right to liberty, to believe, to preach - but when it comes to humans, there’s not a flag. And whatever your thoughts are about what's happening, what I saw was a humanitarian crisis. Then I went to Tijuana and saw the caravans. They have an understanding of their mutual contributions. I wish it was happening in all of America. These border towns have integrated culturally. ![]() I walked into a bar in Brownsville, Texas, and there were three Mexican guys and two white guys laughing and drinking tequila together. I wanted to research this and what I found is a different story - there are some beautiful things happening. You hear all these stories about crime and danger in the border towns, and so much of it is just perception based on what position or laws you want to support. You’ve made a point of spending time at the border. You’re having a conversation at dinner, and someone puts a plate in front of you, but there’s an ecosystem of workers you don’t see that cleaned that plate and prepared what goes on it. People get attacked for taking these jobs, that we’ve been trained to look the other way from, like they’re being done magically. Without insurance, they get hurt, they get thrown out and new people are brought in. It’s one of the most dangerous jobs in America, and one of the most disposable ones too. I did a film called Fast Food Nation with Richard Linkletter, where I play an undocumented worker that crosses the border and takes a job at a slaughterhouse. When did appreciation for your culture turn to activism? I feel like Latin people, through all that stress, instead of complaining, we ‘turn the music up a little louder.’ And that’s why I feel at the worst moments, when I could have fallen apart, I had the sound of my culture to kick me back in gear. It wasn’t Captain Crunch, it was just Crunch, and the guy on the box didn’t have a captain’s hat. We went to the 99 cent stores to to do the groceries-(laughing) so it wasn’t Coca Cola, it was just Cola. When we first got here we were always two months late in rent. ![]()
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