She continued, “You can never do right, it seems. This is the man who literally has brought Latino-ness and Puerto Rican-ness to America.
When host Stephen Colbert asked her if she was saying that she understood the critiques but that the criticism was misplaced in focusing on Miranda, Moreno responded, “Well, I’m simply saying, can’t you just wait a while and leave it alone? There’s a lot of people who are Puerto Rican who are also from Guatemala who are dark and who are also fair.
On Sunday, a video from online magazine The Root went viral in which host and producer Felice León confronted In the Heights director Jon M.
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,” he said.
“Your job as an artist is to write what’s missing,” he began, speaking generally of In the Heights and adding that, personally, he did not see a future for himself in musical theater.
And if there’s a segment of it that doesn’t feel seen and they’re saying that, you have to acknowledge that and let it in.