In her essay, Rodriguez elaborates on Miss Bala, which will come out this summer. She points out that not only does the movie feature a Latinx lead, but it also employed a 95% Latinx crew and was filmed in Mexico. The movie also stars Ismael Cruz Cordova, a Puerto Rican actor, as well as Mexican actor Ricardo Abarca and Cristina Rodlo, star of the NBC Universo series El Vato. (The first season of El Vato is on Netflix!) This is wonderful news but, as Rodriguez points out in her essay, this movie is the exception.