Key Sentence:
- As Sonny de la Vega, Gregory has arrived at another tallness in his prospering acting vocation.
- In the Statures, the film transformation of the hit Broadway melodic by Hamilton maker Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Quiara Alegría Hudes recounts the account of a Latinx-Caribbean people group in Washington Statures pursuing their sueñitos, or little dreams. It’s a story that strikes a chord for Nuyorican (New Yorker of Puerto Rican plummet) Gregory Diaz IV, the young entertainer who plays Sonny in the film, out June 10.
“That is truly why I went gaga for the story in any case,” Gregory discloses to High schooler Vogue via telephone in front of the film’s delivery. “Since finding out about it and paying attention to the soundtrack, I felt this prompt association I had between hearing the music that I heard each day in the city, yet additionally perusing a story that I sort of felt was about me.”
In the Statures, the 16-year-old accomplishes another top in his vocation; he initially named part in a significant movie. Yet, his prosperity has been a long time taking shape. Since the get-go, Gregory has gone for his fantasies and showed them.
As a child, he was acquainted with theater when his father took him to see Matilda the Melodic. That end up being the mystical flash that lit the circuit of his acting profession, and he featured in the Broadway melodic in 2016.
Even though he is a couple of years into his expanding acting vocation, Gregory’s resume is, as of now, loaded up with projects that feature Latinx portrayal. One of his most remarkable jobs was in 2018’s Off-Broadway creation of Pedro Skillet.
The melodic by Rebecca Aparicio was based on Activity Pedro Dish, a period in the mid-1960s when Cuban guardians sent their kids, an expected 14,000, to the U.S. in dread of inculcation under Fidel Castro’s socialist system.
“I plunked down and met with somebody who was a piece of Activity Pedro Dish,” Gregory reviews. “Even after shows, having individuals come dependent upon me and disclose to me that possibly they. They were essential for Activity Pedro Container, or they had guardians that were a piece of it and exactly the amount it truly intended to them; that was an incredible encounter.”
