My worst moment: 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine's' Stephanie Beatriz on the night everything went wrong onstage

To play Rosa Diaz, the smart and intimidatingly no-nonsense detective on the Fox sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," actress Stephanie Beatriz transforms herself. She lowers her natural speaking voice, and because she styles herself differently than Rosa, when she's off the clock she's able to walk around without attracting too much attention. "I wear glasses a lot and my hair will look different," she said, "so unless I'm wearing a leather jacket, I don't really get recognized."

Before she landed the role five years ago, "I actually used to wear exactly what Rosa wears almost all the time, and now I can't because it looks like I'm dressing like the character I'm playing on TV. I can't do it!"

Getting cast on the show was a deeply meaningful moment, Beatriz said. She knew that Melissa Fumero had already been hired to play Detective Amy Santiago on the show, and conditioned by years of seeing Latinas tokenized on television, Beatriz was convinced producers wouldn't hire another Latina. "I was so excited for Melissa, but