{"id":241417,"date":"2026-05-20T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/eiza-gonzalez-feels-pressure-to-speak-up\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:05:07","slug":"eiza-gonzalez-feels-pressure-to-speak-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/eiza-gonzalez-feels-pressure-to-speak-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Eiza Gonzalez feels pressure to &#8216;speak up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-05-20\" datetime=\"1779314707\" pubdate=\"\">20 May 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/eiza-gonzalez\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,eiza-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiza Gonzalez<\/a> feels a responsibility to &#8220;speak up&#8221; about social injustice.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Eiza Gonzalez stars in the new movie<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old actress had a long Zoom meeting with Boots Riley, the director of her new movie I Love Boosters, before landing her role, and Eiza has now shared details of that conversation, admitting that it caused her to look at things in a slightly different light.<\/p>\n<p>Eiza &#8211; who was born and raised in Mexico City, before making a name for herself in the American film industry &#8211; told The Hollywood Reporter: &#8220;I remember hanging up and being like, \u2018I need to be a better citizen&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a Mexican woman, if I\u2019m driving in my car or something, there are privileges that I don\u2019t have, and I have to be hypervigilant \u2014 but I also have what most people don\u2019t, which is the ability to speak up about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eiza stars alongside the likes of Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore in I Love Boosters, and she&#8217;s described the Atlanta production as a &#8220;sisterhood&#8221; as it features numerous women of colour.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actress explained: &#8220;It was like looking in a mirror.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It was so interesting to see how everyone relates to the more difficult parts of this business differently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Eiza previously revealed that she&#8217;s actually feeling better about herself than she did in her 20s.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe movie star suggested that she&#8217;s become more comfortable in her own skin in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe brunette beauty &#8211; who has also released two albums, Contracorriente and Te Acordar\u00e1s de M\u00ed, in 2009 and 2012, respectively &#8211; told InStyle: &#8220;Shockingly, I like myself so much more physically right now than I did in my twenties. And a part of it, obviously, is maturing and accepting yourself and doing all the hard work, but I also think I look better. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I actually think I&#8217;m ageing into my looks in a way that I personally like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/eiza-gonzalez-feels-pressure-speak-1444745.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 May 2026 Eiza Gonzalez feels a responsibility to &#8220;speak up&#8221; about social injustice. Eiza Gonzalez stars in the new movie The 36-year-old actress had a long Zoom meeting with Boots Riley, the director of her new movie I Love Boosters, before landing her role, and Eiza has now shared details of that conversation, admitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15341,7062],"class_list":{"0":"post-241417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-boots-riley","9":"tag-eiza-gonzalez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}