The actress Karla Souza She was heavily criticized on social media for saying in an interview that she was a “person of color.” This was stated by her in the content creator’s podcast Robert Martinez.
Karla He recounted his experience of working in the film and television industry in the United States, and recounted a very particular anecdote where he said he had suffered from racism.
“In the new series that I’m working on, I’m saying it because I’m speaking in Spanish and I don’t think this will reach them, but when I began to smell that white actors were being paid more than women in my new series, two women, that is, me and the African-American, I put together a pinch * ped * ”, he revealed.
He also said that the writers were creating his character in a rather questionable way. “I mean, I smelled them, because of how they were writing my character, because also stereotyping him and everything, and it’s a roe, because I was where women are everything, where inclusion is everything and suddenly I came to this series full of whites . This is hollywood and it’s disgusting.”
In the same way, Karla Souza He reported that this situation was quite stressful, because instead of concentrating on doing his job, he had to deal with certain situations.
“Every day instead of showing up and doing my job it’s a constant struggle to say hey everyone working is white male, this can’t be. Hey everyone who is writing, you are giving all the jokes to the men, all the moments of comedy are to the men, all the moments of physical comedy are to the men; We are like pawns, like the wife, I don’t know what”.
However, he always tried to give these criticisms as a suggestion, since he complained in a positive way. “I complained every day in a positive way because I hate complaining, it’s total death and it’s super poisonous to complain, on a set it’s super toxic, I did it by giving them suggestions.”
After this situation, Karla Souza decided to go directly to the boss. “And not only that, I came with the top to say ‘I know that you are paying more to the whites and I understand that this contract was made before the summer of George Floyd where you did not understand how racism works, but now we know it, you should rectify that the women of color in the series we are paid the same as white people.’”
This generated criticism on social networks for Karla Souza, who argued that it was strange that she said that, taking into account that she was, in fact, a white person. However, other netizens defended her, arguing that critics should understand the context of the entire interview. “It is one thing to be a minority and another to be a person of color. It is evident that they are victimizing themselves again,” they wrote to him.
In addition, Karla Souza He told how his experience was when he arrived in Los Angeles: “I arrived in Los Angeles, I auditioned, they made me sign a role, they still didn’t give me the role, they told me ‘in case they give you the role, your signature here that you accept that we pay you this, for six years of your life, you cannot do anything else, you have to do only this, this is your first position, you are exclusive to us,’” she said.
The actress commented that this situation seemed horrible to her. “I had never had a job in the United States. I said obviously they are not going to give me this paper, I have not done anything here, my friends who have come here have taken much longer so I signed the paper”.
