Yvette Yates: From the El Paso, With Love

*I’m looking forward to the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie “Inherent Vice,” even more so now that I know a Latina is on the cast. VL

By Arturo Hilario, El Observador

As the holidays come to a close and the busyness settles, actress Yvette Yates gets to spend it with her parents, who are in town visiting from the Southwest. There will be a lot of cooking while they celebrate the holidays together.

Yates stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s crime/comedy/drama film adaptation of the novel “Inherent Vice”, written by Thomas Pynchon and starring a studded casts which includes Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon and Benicio Del Toro among others.

Yates is originally from El Paso, Texas, and growing up in that culture affected her outlook and identity. “My parents are from Ciudad Juarez and I was born in El Paso Texas so I’m definitely a border town girl, strong about my roots, and proud of it”.

Her parents have ties to education, “my mom is a para-professional she works with autistic kids in an elementary school and my dad works at the community college as a mathematics professor. So it was always education” she says.

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[Photo courtesy of Yevette Yates Facebook]

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