LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Danny Ramirez looks back at the starting point of his acting career, it feels as if the universe, in its own unique way, had chosen a soccer field to mark the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next.

“I always say that the universe is the best writer, the most efficient writer,” says Ramirez.

He was a freshman in college, sitting on the bench during practice with a sprained ankle, when a production assistant walked over and asked if he wanted to be an extra on Mira Nair’s 2012 film “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” starring Riz Ahmed. The cast and crew were filming at a nearby soccer field.

Ramirez, 33, who is of Mexican and Colombian descent, immediately saw himself in the British Pakistani actor playing on the field.

As a young Latino, Ramirez thoug

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