1.While searching for roles on Backstage and Actors Access, you get ridiculously overjoyed when you see a role with a Latino last name.
2.You will eventually keep running into the same actors at every audition.
3.You get frustrated when you see loglines like this: "Looking for extras for a dramatic period piece taking place in 17th-century England."
4.If you don't look like a supermodel, you can pretty much write telenovelas off the audition list.
5.At one point or another, you've come across a monologue from Rick Najera's Latinologues.
6.Your ears start steaming when you read this on a casting notice: "Frida Kahlo. Late 20s. White/Caucasian."
7."Color-blind casting" is the greatest thing you can read on an audition notice.
8.You roll your eyes when you see a Latino character being described as "spicy," "exotic," or "Latin lover."
9.The frustration of seeing character descriptions like this on an audition notice: "Thug #2. Male. Mid 20s. Latino or African-American."
10.The annoyance of finding out that a Latino role was given to a Caucasian.
11.If you're Latino, expect to find yourself (most of the time) supporting the white lead.
12.If you're an American playing a Latin-American native, your Spanish will never sound 100% authentic, even though you can speak it perfectly.
13.You will encounter scripts where your character says lines in Spanish, and then repeats them immediately in English.
14.If you're playing a Latino character who speaks English, and then you spontaneously curse in Spanish, people will always laugh. ALWAYS.
15.You punch a wall after reading this character description in audition notices: "Sexy Latina. Early to Mid 20s. Nudity required. Think Sofia Vergara."
16.Feeling ridiculously happy when you land a role that's not a one-dimensional, stereotypical portrayal of a gang member, waiter, housekeeper, gardener, or "Latin object of desire."
