Producer Manuel Miranda Is Disappointed: "Latinos Don't Have Dark Enough Skin"
In a lengthy Monday statement, the Broadway producer admitted that he "fell short" in "trying to paint a mosaic of this community."
The 41-year-old wrote, "I started writing In The Heights because I didn't feel seen. And over the past 20 years all I wanted was for us — ALL of us — to feel seen. I'm seeing the discussion around Afro-Latino representation in our film this weekend and it is clear that many in our dark-skinned Afro-Latino community don't feel sufficiently represented within it, particularly among the leading roles."
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— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) June 14, 2021
"I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, over feeling unseen in the feedback," he added. "I hear that without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy."
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