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Leslie Grace Sees a Positive in Her Breakout Film 'Batgirl' Getting Cancelled · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Actress Leslie Grace has
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  Speaker 1: experienced the full scope of emotional highs and lows after
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  Speaker 1: being cast in the title role for back Girl, a
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  Speaker 1: ninety million dollar film that was infamously canceled after it
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  Speaker 1: was shot last year as a tax write off, a
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  Speaker 1: first for a project of that scale, and when the
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  Speaker 1: Dominican American star Wars selected for the role, she spoke
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  Speaker 1: passionately about what it would mean for young Latino girls
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  Speaker 1: to see her in the cave. But now that she's
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  Speaker 1: dealt with the heartbreak of the film being canceled, Leslie
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  Speaker 1: still sees an empowering message for those girls in her experience.
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  Speaker 1: She tells variety, everything in your journey can be learned from,
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  Speaker 1: can be transformative, inspirational and aspirational for someone that you
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  Speaker 1: might not even know. I've learned that you can make
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  Speaker 1: the choice to learn from things and transform it into
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  Speaker 1: something that's positive for you, or you can be down
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  Speaker 1: in the dumps. If you have a passion for something,
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  Speaker 1: don't let anything tell you that you aren't worthy, capable,
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  Speaker 1: or have the potential to fulfill what you know you're
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  Speaker 1: capable of doing. Leslie's new scripted vampire podcast How Do
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  Speaker 1: We Friends and Disappear People is out now. That's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood.