Tamara Almeida: Since I grew up a Jehovah’s Witness, I say that it’s a very transferable skill to go knocking on people’s doors from a really early age, to then having very little shame about asking for what you need. The way that I always looked at sales, like foundationally, was I’m here to solve a problem you don’t know that you have. And in some ways, I actually think that that’s very similar to what we do in acting. It’s listening, right? It’s like really just listening and figuring out like what you need and taking the attention off yourself.

The part of me that has to do the business stuff is one version of me, and then the part of me that wants to be an artist is a different part. I felt so angry at this industry for a long time. I was like; I’m more than just a Latina. Why am I going out for so many escorts? It actually really hurt my feelings. But then when we think about the business of it, it flipped. I was like, okay, so if I look how I look, then I’m here to tell a certain story. And it’s my responsibility then to tell that story fairly.