When it came to connecting with her cultural roots, the Mexican American says she has her friends and America Ferrera to credit for that. “Real Women Have Curves is the first time I ever saw myself on screen,” she says. “To this day, people are like, ‘you remind me so much of young America Ferrera,’ and that’s such a compliment to me because she’s literally one of the people that made me see that I could do this, that we could be on screen. And she’s so good in that movie.” Escobedo says that she has dreams of one day working alongside Ferrera. In fact, she has a message for the Ugly Betty star: “I could play your daughter! But no, that’s definitely a dream.”