Echo director Sydney Freeland says her trans and Navajo identity helped her connect with Maya Lopez.
"I think coming from multiple marginalized communities, I'm used to being misrepresented and misportrayed in media," Freeland, who is also Navajo, tells GamesRadar+. "And so when I saw that this is a deaf and indigenous character – that was actually incredibly exciting for me because things that might be foreign or different or other to people come across as incredibly normal to me. That's the space I love to be in. That's the space I love to operate in."
