Eva Noblezada 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.
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