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'Easter Sunday' Actress Eva Noblezada on Representation: 'People Want to See Themselves'

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« Easter Sunday » actress Eva Noblezada on AAPI representation on stage and on screen.
Mulan was my childhood icon. After seeing her face and recognizing something similar in mine, I decided that I also wanted to cut my hair off in an act of 5-year-old defiance. With my Papa’s nose hair trimmers, that was. And for a long time, Mulan was one of the very few characters I saw on TV and in magazines that looked like me. This confused me in a way because my own life was full of all different types of people who made my life feel wonderful. I wondered why I wasn’t watching more of their stories. As I grew older and fell more in love with acting and the need to be a part of telling stories, I acclimated to a very small (yet whom I fiercely adored) list of actors that looked…. kinda like me. They were beacons of hope that made me think maybe one day, I too, would be doing what they did. I am still on the never-ending journey of self-identity. But if there’s one thing I know; it’s that I’m effing proud to be Mexican-Filipina. And I feel more strongly about that every day. Being in Jo Koy’s upcoming release “Easter Sunday” was…soul-fulfilling. It was very similar to being served a steaming plate of lumpia and pancit palabok — dishes integral to Filipino cuisine and homes.

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