Growing Up in Los Angeles

Description: Hawthorne is a rough, urban neighborhood with Catholic, working-class immigrant families.

Transcript:

I’m from Hawthorne, California originally. I live in both California and Washington, D.C.

at the moment.

See I’m of the belief that your origins shape you in ways that you can never really entirely

shake off. And I am a working class, Latin kid from L.A. I was raised in a very

rough neighborhood – Hawthorne – which a lot of people would know from being the setting

of “Pulp Fiction” and “Jackie Brown”. It’s an urban, harsh neighborhood in Southwest

Los Angeles. My father was Sicilian. My mother was Mexican. I was raised largely in

a neighborhood of immigrants. And so I was raised in a very Catholic, working-class way.

And that’s shaped pretty much most of my attitude since then.