First and foremost, the film comes out on Friday. How do you feel?

I'm really excited. I've been talking to some people and they're asking me about how I felt when I saw the movie. I was like, "I'm waiting along with everybody else to see it." I haven't seen it yet, and I'm really excited for all of us to support this type of project. It's very important to support projects done by our community.

That's a huge element of this that I want to talk to you about because the film gets to such a core issue that is in the vernacular that we're talking about, immigration. It's such an umbrella term, but for such a personal journey. You're a Chilean American [and] moved here when you were really young. With that said, in what ways did you source from your own experience while preparing for this role?

I actually became a citizen when I was 17. From four years old to stepping onto this soil, which was where I grew up and my home, the process of becoming a citizen is a very long, expensive, daunting one. That's something that people don't necessarily realize. In terms of my character, at first, when I was reading her trajectory and her description, I thought, "Wow, I couldn't be more different than this so far.

I was able to connect with the character of Micah, noticing that we have the same starting point where we're both white Latinx women. It was really a cool experience to be able to tap into that same starting point or inception and imagine how my life could turn out differently because of the way that I present physically. I can take up spaces that other people can't — other people being my own mother, my own family that is all still in Chile.

Regardless of how I felt about the character's end goal or how she turns out, I felt like it was a responsibility to be able to take up that space and play that character, knowing what my life and my intentions represent.