As the country grapples with COVID-19, Cuban American actor Gina Torres says it's"incredibly humbling" and a"gift" to step into the role of a paramedic captain in the season premiere of the hit drama"9-1-1 Lone Star."
"They'd be the first to tell you, and not unlike 'Suits' or 'Pearson' when you talk to lawyers, it's not that sexy or dramatic a lot of the time," Torres said."Having said that, I really do believe that the strength of this show is the focus on the characters — it is really character-driven and human-driven, and that's what these people are in the face of extraordinary circumstances.
"You try to have a game face during these phone calls : 'Yeah, whoa, that sounds interesting. Oh, sure, uh huh, yeah.' But there was no game face, and I'd known him way too long for that, anyway, so I was just like, 'Yup, sounds great to me!'" Torres said with a hearty laugh, later saying she had casually watched the show a few weeks earlier.Kevin Estrada / Fox
"When I sort of led the charge and grabbed the horns of my career, really wanting to make my dreams a reality, 'limits' couldn't be part of my vocabulary," she said."It really became my job to people, whoever was in the room at the time, whatever habit of expectation and false information they'd fallen into regarding what any particular person or sex or ethnicity should look or behave like."Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't.
As the proud daughter of Cuban immigrants, Torres said she does not know whether her heritage has necessarily influenced her craft as an actor, but it has certainly fed her drive and passion, even in this new chapter of her life.
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