She shot to worldwide attention in her role as Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical movie Roma. And now Yalitza Aparicio is using her new-found fame to highlight the importance of art to bringing focus onto important issues in society.
Writing an opinion piece in The New York Times, the Oaxaca, Mexico native explains how art “presents us with the amazing opportunity to give voice to the unheard, and visibility to the unseen.” Yalitza Aparicio’s rise to stardom: from school teacher to Oscar-nominee In the piece she reveals that she nearly ignored the casting call for the movie: “Four years ago, when a casting call for “Roma” was issued in my city, Tlaxiaco, in the state of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, I almost didn’t go to the
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