"I'm a Brazilian — full blood, parents born and raised, and I lived there for a little bit — but I didn't grow up there," Mendes told Glamour. "I'm not as Latina as sometimes these castings demand you to be — this 'urban' idea of what a Latina is. I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype. This came along, and I felt like I didn't have to try to be anything that I'm not."