John Leguizamo SLAMS Hollywood For Lack of Latino Representation!
Hollywood tends to have a blind eye when it comes to representing films with Latin actors for Latin roles. It has been an ongoing thing for years and now John Leguizamo is putting Hollywood on BLAST for Lack of Latino representation in film…
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CelebnMovies247.com reports that Leguizamo has taken to social media to show exactly how Hollywood has cast white actors for years instead of Latin actors for roles that require and Latin person.
The problem with Hollywood is that they are about making money and using popular celebrities to draw in an audience for films in Theaters regardless of their nationality. It is NOT right, but Hollywood is all about making money. They have a lack of concern for cultural appropriation.
John points out in a post on social media that Hollywood loves to cast white actors for brown roles.
He writes:
Brown face in Hollywood ain’t new! Imagine all the Latin stars who could’ve been made in these roles!!!
White actors playing latino
Anthony Hopkins as El Zorro in “The Mask of zorro”
Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as Maria and Tony in “West Side Story” (1961)
Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in “Argo” (2012)
Will Ferrell as Armando in “La Casa de mi Padre” (2012)Jack Palance as Fidel Castro in “Che” (1969)
Eli Wallach as Tuco in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (1966) and as Calvera in “Magnificent Seven” (1960)
Hank Azaria as Agador in “The Birdcage” (1996)
Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata in “Viva Zapata!” (1952)
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Elena in “The Mask of Zorro” & “The Legend of Zorro” (1998 and 2005)
Johnny Depp as Bon Bon/Lieutenant Victor in “Before Night Falls” (2000)
Cliff Curtis as Pablo Escobar in “Blow” (2001) and as Emilio Restrepo in “Colombiana” (2011)
Madonna as Evita in “Evita” (1996)
Armand Assante as a Cuban in “Mambo Kings”
Al Pacino as Tony Montana in “Scarface” (1983)
John Turturro as Jesús in “The Big Lebowski” (1998)
Jack Black as Nacho in “Nacho Libre” (2006)
Ingrid Bergman as María in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1943)
Robert Downey Jr. as Steve Lopez in “The Soloist” (2009)
Jared Leto in Lonely Hearts
Pacino in Carlito’s Way 1993
Marisa Tomei in The Perez Family
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