Kiana Madeira Quotes

Kiana Madeira

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 4, 1992

I just always want to make sure everyone's good. I look out for my younger sister, my older brother, my mom, and my dad - I feel like I'm really hands-on when it comes to taking care of them, and making sure that they're good.

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I really wanted to be part of 'Trinkets' and play Moe because there's something very mysterious about her.

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I feel like R.L. Stine is so creative... he spares no one. He's relentless in the way that there's just blood and gore and horror in the 'Fear Street' books and the 'Goosebumps' books.

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Fear Street' just takes all of those stereotypes and those tropes and flips them on its head. I feel honored to be a part of a community and a trilogy that does that.

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Music is so healing. I hope everybody takes the time to experiment with what music they listen to, it can be life-changing.

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Trinkets' is based on a book, so sometimes to take one book and spread the story out so much doesn't really do the story justice. Everyone just decided that two seasons would be the perfect amount of time.

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Early on in my career, I struggled with body image and feeling comfortable in my skin.

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I think that social media influence is such a powerful presence in our society to the point where it's a little bit scary sometimes.

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I can see firsthand being young and being from this generation as well that Instagram influences our minds in such a powerful way that sometimes we're not even aware of it.

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Honestly, I feel like inside my soul, I'm very anti-social media to a point where I realized that I need to be active in part because of my profession, but I delete all of the social media apps on my phone daily.

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When I was preparing for '1994,' the song for Deena and Sam was 'Fast Car' by Tracy Chapman. I just really love that song so much, and I think the lyrics really hit home and reminded me of their dynamic.

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It's very rare that you get to play more than one character in the same world.

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Fear Street' subverts almost every stereotype that you can think of in the horror genre, which I love. We have a horror trilogy that's centered around a queer relationship. The main protagonist is a queer woman of color.

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In a way, it almost feels like your career starts again when you get to the States, because a lot of the programs that we do in Canada are not even shown here.

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Moe's the first character that I played that actually allowed me to embrace all parts of myself, including my physical appearance, the things that make me angry, the things that I would consider quirks or little things that make me funny. I still carry those things that I learned from Trinkets to this day.

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We need diversity onscreen. We need to be moving in that direction, because that's a reflection of the world that we're living in today.

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I would love to continue to tell stories that are constructive to our society; I would love to continue to portray characters that are people who have been oppressed in our world.

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It's weird being with actors in a room and knowing, 'Only two of us are going to get these roles.'

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We all know what it feels like to love someone and care about them and want to protect them.

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I realized being on the set that I love doing stunts and I love fighting and I love action, so it was really fun to shoot those scenes.

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