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Karla Souza Biography

Karla Olivares Souza (born December 11, 1985) is a Mexican-American actress. She is known for her role as Laurel Castillo on the ABC legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder.

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I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

Alive, Keep, Share, Sunday, Tradition, Want

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

Everybody, Life, Like You, Said, Scripts, Way

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

Enough, Feels, Human, Projects, Statistic

I also have to be careful of what it says about women. I get a lot of scripts that only talk about women's appearances and what they look like. I think we're tired of having to meet this standard and not being asked what our talents or abilities are.

Abilities, Appearances, Looks, Talk, Thinking, Tired

[Everybody Loves Somebody] one really loves both cultures, represents them in a very accurate, genuine, authentic, fun, fresh way, and it includes so many more people because it has that language aspect to it.

Culture, Everybody, Fresh, Fun, People, Somebody

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

Different, Hair, Valued, White, Wisdom

In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the family - especially in this movie - they know that the reason that Clara doesn't want to have an emotional, intimate relationship is more because she was hurt so badly from heartbreak that she's then being closed off and cynical.

Character, Cynical, Emotional, Hurt, Reason, Think

Something I was adamant about was that the movie [Everybody Lovess Somebody] wouldn't end with, oh, marriage saved [the main character]. They're married and she's OK. I was very pushing on having the ending be that she made an inner growth of healing so that she can then have the ability and the space to love and be loved by someone else, and that love is open-ended and doesn't mean they're going to get married tomorrow and all her problems are solved.

Character, Growth, Healing, Love, Marriage, Mean

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

Different, Everybody, Immigrant, Immigrants, Sort, Take

There's a lot of things, even the landscape that we show in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] of Ensenada in Baja is just spectacular. There's so much more - I wish we could have shown more, but I'm glad we didn't see the typical, you know, border-sombrero-tequila thing that we normally do.

Borders, Movie, Things, Typical, Wish

I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things - and I say this because I've been given a lot of bilingual movies in the past because of my career in Mexico, and they're like, "Oh, it's going to make sense for her to do this. " A lot of studios want to hit that demographic, but they sort of do it without starting in the right way, which is having someone who knows the culture, and enjoys the language as well, to be able to write these things.

Having, Movies, Opportunity, Sort, Thinking, Writing

All the products that are sold to us - those anti-aging products - are telling us that there's a due date.

Aging, Due Date, Dues, Products, Sold, Telling

[Rhimes and Pete Nowalk] have definitely, from the pilot [of How to Get Away with Murder], brought forth a woman who is unapologetically herself, unapologetically flawed, and is as vulnerable as she is powerful. I'm grateful to be in that family.

Brought, Flawed, Grateful, Pete, Pilots, Powerful

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

Hands, Music, Somebody, Theme, Themes, Tradition

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

Character, Everybody, Forever, Guy, Process

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

Everybody, Family, Hanging Out, Loves, Somebody, Want

I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.

Movie, Piece, Play, Thinking, Transformed, Writing

When I was asked to change Laurel into a Latina for How to Get Away with Murder, I was terrified, because I thought, no one's going to know how to do this because the American take on my culture is never accurate.

Culture, Latina, Laurel, Murder, Take, Terrified

When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with the younger generation. They've made us believe that there's not enough men out there for us or that we're only hired because of our looks and not because of our abilities.

Abilities, Believe, Generations, Make, Men, Younger

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

Culinary, Food, Mexican, People

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