Posted on 08/08/2022 6:09:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yeah— weird huh,Echevarria is Basque origin, if i recall. Like Andy Garcia much better, he’s conservative says and has had some good roles in career like in Godfather (III?). Had a bit part as the murdered cartel guy in “The Mule” I think, the Eastwood movie
The Lost City is a great movie about Havana during The Revolution.
Yes, great one. the two, one with Sean Connery as Batista’s mil/war advisor, and another one with of all people Robert Redford were ok...redford’s really bad, not believable.
Wasn’t there a Hitchcock one— “Topaz” fictionalized spy movie on the “Sapphire” French intel affair during/before Cuban Missile Crisis. Leon Uris novel based.
Castro was a first generation Cuban.. his father came from Galicia Spain, and his mothers family was from the Canary Islands... James Franco is half portuguese. I guess that’s not Iberian enough lolol
Black Santa Claus? I’ve barely gotten over seeing Kurt Russell as Santa Claus.
No opinion yet from Mr. Leguizamo on Ana De Armas portrayal of Marilyn Monroe.
The character Tony in West Side Story was NOT Latino. I think the character was Polish, maybe? That was the point - the lovers were crossing an ethnic barrier.
Not all Latinos are “brown.” For centuries, Latin America was ruled by white guys—Spaniards, Portuguese, and Frenchmen. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of immigrants from Italy, Germany, England, Wales and other European countries also came to Latin America as did adventurers, Confederate sympathizers, Mormons, drifting cowboys, and others from the US.
Dear Entertainment Industry,
Look, other then when you flagrantly cast someone who does not remotely appear like the source material on film, I honestly don’t care what their actual ethnicity of the actor is... If you can make them appear to be what they should, I really could care less.
When you ignore the source material and decide to change the ethnicity or other characteristics of the source material and I am familiar with the source material, I see it as NOTHING BUT PANDERING.. period, because at the end of the day, that’s all it is.
There is no “Hispanic” race you Amurcan morons (like Leguizamo). I was having this very argument with a hood-raised Nuyorican friend two weeks ago. Fidel Castro’s father was from Spain (Galicia) and had light hair and was pale. His maternal grandparents were from the Asturias. In other words, the Castro brothers are white guys. Don’t get me started on Ernesto Guevara-Lynch, the Basque/Irish white kid better known as “Che.”
Leguizamo is Basque, Lebanese, and Amerindian by ancestry - he should lobby to play Arabs.
Methinks that actor John Leguizamo auditioned for or wanted the role and did not get it?
He’s too old and too short.....................
No one can post better comments than FReepers...no one.
Pretty much every Mexican President, including AMLO, has been lily-White.
Just like Salma Hayek is Lebanese.
Many of the Hispanics he cited were Spanish and many Spanish are very white.
Also he has played Italians several times, so he needs to shut the hell up.
John Leguizamo is not any of the characters he does as an actor. He should therefore be unemployed.
He is though a racist.
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