4/16/2023 0 Comments Christina wrenWren looks towards Hicksters as a means of healing through laughter. She looks at Hicksters as an opportunity to “explore the complexities of social exchanges.” She thinks that once we are open to share our stories, understand the foundations of our belief systems and open our minds to different perspectives, we can step forward, towards unity. Wren believes that we all have stories worth sharing. Hicksters follows the life of Ruby and Alex as they adjust to a new home, a new lifestyle and new experiences, as they explore what it truly means to love your neighbor. Wren plays ‘Ruby,’ a fun – loving Hijabi actor Jeremy Walker plays ‘Alex,’ her metro Black husband in the series. Hicksters takes place in Middle America, where an urban hipster couple moves from New York City to start a new life on a farm they inherited. When we only see the painful realities of today’s news cycle on loop, we can fully buy into the divisiveness and miss out on the beautiful love and connection that also exists within our borders.” Laughter, in all our bumbling, brings us together. Regarding this, she said, “Stories are a healing balm in an increasingly divisive time. Wren believed that sharing her and her husband’s experiences with growing up in various parts of the United States (as they relate to their ethnicities) is best done with humor, the point of which is to illustrate that though we may be different, we are all one beautiful nation. As she made a stop in the middle of the country, Wren overheard a woman speaking to the cashier about how awful New York was, only to say that, “the only place worse than New York is LA!” Wren had a funny thought in her mind that people from both coasts also had the same thoughts about middle America. Wren came up with the idea for her new web series, Hicksters, while migrating from New York City to Los Angeles. She remarked, “I know what joyful people we are and how much my family members contribute to America as Americans and excel in their fields and actively participate in their communities.” Afterwards, she wanted to use her voice to represent herself and what her heritage as an American meant to her. This experience significantly impacted her as an artist. People were saying horrific things about Arabs, having no idea that I was one.” Wren recalls, “People don’t know they are talking about me in front of me. Together, they created the production company known as, “Two Kids with a Camera.” Her husband, Demetrius Wren, is an African American who grew up in Mississippi and Georgia. Since we last met, she gave birth to a boy, and is currently pregnant with her second child.Īs a first generation Arab American (her father is of Middle East descent and her mother hails from the Midwest), Wren has had the unique opportunity to assimilate herself into different cultures and has personally experienced a wide variety of stereotypes. When I first met Christina Wren 3 years ago for an interview with Millennium Magazine, she struck me as someone who just wanted to be a force of good in the world. It’s a nation of diversity in which we all seek to peacefully coexist. America is a melting pot of cultures and traditions from all over the world.
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