“I know a lot of people would say the new version is not as controversial, but I would have to highly disagree,” Paxton, who is of Mexican descent from her mother’s side, told me during a phone interview. “I snuck into a couple of theaters and sat in the back so I could see peoples’ reactions. People were shouting at the screen. Some were crying and freaking out. When my friends went to see it, some of them couldn’t look at me in the eyes for days.”
