Lighting a white room with tungsten, maintaining skin tones

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For a project I'm shooting soon I'm working with a room that has all-white walls and attempting to make the room look tungsten lit for a slightly warmer feel. Kind of like the Jennifer Garner hotel scene in Catch Me If You Can or the suburban house in Transformers.

The problem I have is that one of my actors is Mexican, so I'm worried simply daylight white-balancing the camera will darken or warm her skin too much. The idea I started bouncing around was shooting with a daylight white-balance, and lighting the walls mainly with tungsten practicals, but using some CTB light on the actors off-camera so their skin tones aren't affected as much. (my goal is to have 99% of the look in-camera if possible)

Any ideas or experience with this?
 

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