001I think people always want to have people in media or in entertainment that they can look up to and they want to kind of identify with that person and the struggles that they're going through people want to feel understood I guess and like they can relate to other people and that their struggles or whatever they're going through can be validated and represented by other people and so I mean I can see in a lot of movies my group kind of represented and a lot of other people don't really get that kind of understanding or struggle of base for that understanding or like relatability of basic struggles that they go through which can be related specifically to their minority group or even just in general I feel like now based a lot of movies books and
002like video games and stuff represent me um one of the movies that really represented me was like lo Simon because like I never wanted to like you know come out to people so I would have like this secret identity that oh no one is cool like knew about but in the movie it shows like how like you try to hide it but then when you come out like I'm not like you know everything's gonna be fine when people support you and stuff so it's nice to have someone like act out and represent like why I go through it because then I can like it's easier for me to like deal with it Hollywood does too little to reflect diversity but when they do put diversity in their films it's only about race relations or things
003that happen in the past there is no regular movies that star minorities that don't also state that they're minorities you