Filming a scene with Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie for Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice, Liz Caribel Sierra improvised the following line: “I’m from Dyckman, and I lead with so much love, but I’m quick to fuck a motherfucker up.”
Off-screen, 27-year-old Caribel Sierra calls Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood of Dyckman—known as “Little Dominican Republic”—home. It’s where her parents, who emigrated from the Dominican Republic just before she was born, raised her. Playing Blink Twice’s character of Camilla, says Caribel Sierra, was her first experience where “bringing in a little bit of my lived experience as a Latina growing up in New York was actually better for the role.”
