Eiza González Bonkers Girls Night Out in Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’

In Boots Riley’s new movie I Love Boosters, Eiza González plays a cashier who moonlights as an expert in dialectical materialism. She dresses like a goth, hits her vape constantly and deep-dives on Reddit. But for González, the most radical thing about the role was acting alongside a group of women for the first time. “It’s always, like, five men and then me,” she says of her career. “I’ve always wondered why I get cast in things like that.”

But González, 36, is working on a theory. She’s found that the business tends to give women two windows: “The first is, ‘We don’t really know who you are’; and then they’re like, ‘This is all you are.’ ”