Leslie Grace Talks Her New Album — Plus 'in The Heights' And The Lost 'batgirl' Movie On 'the De Los Podcast'

In nan debut section of “The De Los Podcast,” hosts Fidel Martinez and Suzy Exposito said pinch nan Latin Grammy-nominated vocalist and character Leslie Grace astir her long-awaited caller euphony — positive immoderate of nan highlights and symptom points passim her movie career.

Released successful May, Grace’s bilingual grounds “Amor, ¿Quién Eres?” is nan first medium she’s released successful complete a decade. Suffused pinch what Exposito described arsenic “tropical eleganza,” nan medium is simply a acold outcry from nan Christian euphony Grace recorded successful her teen years — and a marked displacement from nan Latin Grammy-nominated self-titled task she released successful 2013. She touched connected immoderate of nan individual developments required to scope nan much sensual sonic scenery she explored successful her latest release.

“The biggest learning has been really to protect my imaginative space, while I turn it and observe astatine nan aforesaid time,” she told De Los.

The 31-year-old besides discussed her activity successful nan 2021 movie philharmonic “In nan Heights” — and nan online backlash nan movie received owed to nan deficiency of different Afro-Latinos successful nan cast.

“The deficiency of practice wrong movie [and] diverseness wrong nan Latin organization is simply a speech we haven’t touched connected arsenic much,” she said. “Only truthful galore films [are] fixed a shot. There [are] definite ways that Latinos are portrayed that are very narrowed down successful film. I deliberation it’s a worthwhile speech astatine immoderate time. I’m gladsome that group started to talk astir that, truthful [we] tin get much stories.”

Reflecting further connected her filmography, Grace talked astir nan canceled merchandise of “Batgirl,” successful which she played nan titular role. The film, which was primitively for a precocious 2022 debut connected nan HBO Max streaming service, was axed by its workplace Warner Bros. for financial reasons.

“It was disappointing because we knew nan movie that we were making,” Grace said of nan movie, which was successful postproduction erstwhile it was scrapped. “I knew that it wasn’t a reflection of our work, because this is thing that happens. But I deliberation because of nan discourse of nan speech astir representation, and nan measurement that films tin beryllium discarded, aft a batch of activity and clip and money has gone into thing ... nan imaginative organization really felt for me.”

During that period, Grace said nan support from different creatives helped her move forward. She has since starred successful much independent films successful caller years — including “In nan Summers,” which won a expansive assemblage prize astatine nan Sundance Film Festival successful 2024 — and nan 2026 features “Stages” and “Campeón Gabacho,” which premiered astatine this year’s version of South By Southwest.

“I really americium grateful for each personification that reached retired to maine and was like: ‘Hey, I’ve sewage you, immoderate you need,’ aliases ‘This is wrong,’” Grace said. “When thing happens to me, I attraction connected my acquisition and what I gained from it, that nary 1 could really return away.”