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Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes Wants In The Heights To Become The Gateway To Many More Latinx Stories
The Pulitzer-winning playwright talks about the long journey to get the groundbreaking musical from the Broadway stage to the big screen.
By Marina Fang
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While on the set of âIn the Heights,â screenwriter Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes wanted to make sure every detail about every character was right, down to their shoes.
For the scenes set at the salon owned by Daniela (Daphne Rubin-Vega), some of the movieâs executives wanted hypersexualized salon workers, asking if the production team could find a âLatina bombshellâ â perpetuating âthis very limited version of what Latino beauty looks like,â the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright recalled in an interview.