Latinas have been stereotyped as passionate, loud, and ready to please — portrayals that never felt right for deadpan Latinas. But with Aubrey Plaza and Jenna Ortega in Hollywood, deadpan Latinas are starting to feel seen.
“I was already quite deadpan and sarcastic when I saw the show, but I felt very,” Colón, 30, tells Refinery29 Somos. “My delivery and sarcasm is probably what people will notice first. I was always obsessed with banter and having playful conversations with people, but keeping it right on the edge of being too serious.” "The deadpan Latina embodies a certain kind of energy that keeps you on your toes.
“In those days, however, I didn’t encounter as many Latinas in popular culture who were as involved in these subcultures — they existed but again, not in pop culture,” Blossom, 38, says. “When I started seeing more Latinas who weren’t just there to smile or be sexualized on shows, who maybe didn’t always laugh at bad jokes or smile because they were asked to, I started recognizing some of those same personality traits I’d been exhibiting for years and feeling a bit more seen.
“Being deadpan is a mix of things: learning how to dish it out from your abuelas; fighting machismo and the patriarchy with a sharp tongue; and being the oddball out where you learn to engage and own your place in the world with a bit of humor,” Carmen says. “You’re writing your own rules by rejecting assumptions of how you should be, and once you own it, people gravitate toward that.”, can trace a clear connection between her upbringing and her personality today.
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