When Victoria Alonso, executive vp physical production for Marvel Studios, walks into any meeting, the first thing she does is tally the number of men and women in attendance, and at the end, she announces the stat.
Alonso, 52, first arrived in L.A. in 1990 to pursue acting, but she says she quickly learned she was “too tall, too short, not this, not that.” So she moved into the male-dominated field of special effects.
“For the longest of times, I was always one of the few women on set,” she says. “Thank God there was a makeup artist or a costumer or a hair person.”
