00:01There's like seven people in the back of that ambulance and we're on top of each other.
00:06You know, it felt like an experimental movie but only that your partners were like Jake Gyllenhaal.
00:11Every day was a new challenge and I think it's both exhilarating and nerve-wracking,
00:15but it was really, I felt very empowered by this whole process.
00:23It is really powerful that we're seeing a female Mexican woman in a character like this
00:29because we rarely get to play roles like this. We really do.
00:32Unless there's some like excuse or reason for it and I don't get to play roles like this quite often.
00:39So I was really honored, very grateful, hoping that even though it's a small dent into the world,
00:46I hope that it forces people and forces the industry to write better roles for us.
00:54The whole process was just really unique, you know, it's really, I mean there was moments that Yahya was driving
01:02and Jake was losing his mind.
01:04And I was just dying laughing in the back and we have to be serious and obviously,
01:08we're all crammed in the back of this ambulance and Michael was like operating the camera.
01:17It was just more about me being vocal like, I think this is crucial in the scene or this moment
01:21is crucial to make sure that she's not a cartoon or one layered person.
01:26How do we bring this? So it was more creative conversations than anything, but it really is.
01:32You know, when you're playing a real person, people that have really been glaringly obvious to the saviors of the
01:38whole society more than ever in the last three years,
01:41you really have to do them justice and honor them and do it right.
01:45And so a part of that is allowing the information that they gave me to bring it into the role
01:52and really bring that to the screen and not let the Hollywood version sort of pierce through and make it
01:57as grounded as possible.
