But when she queried agents on the idea, they all wanted more. “That’s how ‘Once I Was You’ was born,” she said in a video chat on Friday. In our one-on-one chat before the panel, Hinojosa touched on immigration reform, diversity in media, her life story and what it means to be a chingona. Hinojosa was a toddler in 1962 when she and her family arrived in Dallas from Mexico, green cards in hand. She had an allergic rash on her skin that a customs agent thought was German measles.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 31, 2020 15:56 UTC