'Firelight' Star On Juvenile Delinquents

A lot of people know actress Q'Orianka Kilcher from her scene-stealing turn in director Terrence Malick's "The New World" (2005), but what a lot of people don't know is that the 22-year-old actress is Latina.

The Huffington Post caught up with the lovely actress this week to talk about her new role as a Latina juvenile delinquent in the movie "Firelight" (which premiered last night on ABC), her Latin roots, and why she's learning Español.

We know your part-Latina. What are your Latin roots?
My father’s Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cusco. I’m also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian. I was in Peru last year and hopefully I’m going to get to go again soon!

Do you speak Spanish?
I’m re-learning it, actually. When I was little, I used to speak it all of the time--It was my first language. But I ended up forgetting it, because I stopped speaking it. But I have it in me.

Do you feel like people know you’re Latina?
No, they don’t. I’ve kind of gotten typecast because I’ve played Pocahontas in “The New World.� Hopefully with “Firelight,� people will see that I’m Latina! The character I play in “Firelight� is Latina!

Tell us about “Firelight.�
“Firelightâ€� is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character Caroline is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated. Caroline was never given a chanceâ€

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