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Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union Tout A Diverse Production Staff For ‘L.A.’s Finest’

“We really wanted to have more diversity in the writer's room.”

Paul Bois
Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union Tout A Diverse Production Staff For ‘L.A.’s Finest’
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Though the television cop drama features two women in the lead role, one black and one Hispanic, Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union, who both star in and produce the show, say they took the diversity initiative a step further by trickling it on down to the production staff.

Speaking with Fox News, the two actresses explained that pushing diversity behind the camera was a cornerstone value they wanted to promote on the show. Alba even went as far as to say she wanted to see more productions where people are “openly parenting.”

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