Roma by Cuarón

Yalitza Aparicio teamed up with Sesame Street to launch a campaign to encourage children to fight for their dreams

In the Netflix film, she plays a maid named Cleo, who is struggling with her own problems as she looks after a middle-class family deserted by their father

Uzo Aduba has previously gushed about Aparicio in her Instagram account

The majority of Mexicans celebrated Yalitza and “Roma”, as it finally put an indigenous woman at center stage but many others discriminated her

The film directed by Alfonso Cuarón has been awarded dozens of prizes this year

Social media users pointed out that Yalitza's skin looks much lighter and looks slimmer

The soap opera actor was caught hurling a racial slur at the “Roma” actress, who is an Indigenous woman

Jorge Guerrero had been denied the visa three times

Yalitza has graced the covers important fashion magazines such as Vogue Mexico, Vogue UK, ELLE Mexico, Vanity Fair, among many others

The Mexican film has been a huge success in Mexico and all over the world