Tanya Saracho admits there’s a bit of irony in focusing on the plight of East L.A.
gentrification in her new series “Vida” — and then being accused of doing the same thing.“When we did the pilot presentation we ruffled some feathers in the neighborhood.
They called us out for doing what the show is about,” she said.
“I listened, they’re not wrong… it’s happening.
I got called ‘whitetina’ online, and we were like, ‘Meta — let’s put that in the show!’”“I understand why as a neighborhood the people who feel this way feel this way.
They’re being displaced.
It’s like erasure.
Less than 30 percent of the people who live in Boyle Heights own [their homes].
And a lot are undocumented.
We’re doing our best, and aware of it.
We tried to use the east side as little as we could, for the topography.
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