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Document 1 Star Wars actor Diego Luna did not hide his Mexican accent — and Latinos heard it loud When the newest Star Wars movie1 came out in movie theaters, Perla Nation insisted on waiting to see it with her father, after the holidays. He was by no means a fan of the saga, and neither was she. But the 27-year-old from San Diego had a feeling the movie would resonate with her father, a landscaper who immigrated to the United States from 5 Guadalajara, Mexico, in the early 1980s. As they sat in the movie theater, the father and daughter watched as one of the main characters, an intelligence officer with the Alliance named Captain Cassian Andor, appeared on the screen. Perla Nation’s father, Pablo Perez, nudged her as soon as he heard the actor, Diego 10 Luna, speak. “He has a heavy accent,” Perez uttered to his daughter. After the movie, as they walked to their car, Perez turned to his daughter and said, once more, “Did you notice that he had an accent?” “Yeah, Dad,” Nation responded, “just like yours.” 15 Having watched previous interviews with Diego Luna about his role in the movie, Perla Nation already knew the Mexican actor would be keeping his accent in the movie, she said in an interview with The Washington Post. She thought of her father, with his Mexican accent, and what seeing Luna’s performance could mean to him. It wasn’t just that a Mexican was on screen, or even that an actor was speaking in a 20 Mexican accent. It was the unexpectedness of the role. There was no particular reason Cassian was Mexican, or why he shouldn’t be. He just was. When she was younger, attending a predominantly white school, Nation remembered feeling frustrated with her parents for not being able to speak English as clearly as her friends’ parents. As she grew older, Perla Nation said, she began to appreciate the 25 difficulty of learning a second language, and realized how wrong she was “for thinking that this difference was a detriment.” Still, her father has always been self-conscious about his accent, and insists on speaking Spanish at home, even though he is fluent in English. As Perez watched Diego Luna unabashedly speaking in his native accent on screen, “you could just see this huge smile on his face,” Perla Nation said. From Samantha Schmidt, www.washingtonpost.com, January