If he hates it and wants to ban it, well, I’ll probably still watch his movies because he’s been one of my favorite actors for the past 30 years. Fernandez, and have took time to find a female protagonist with Cuban roots, so he also unfairly attacks the female focus on this title.This is a film based on a Latin female immigrant living in America of historical importance, directed by a Latin woman, and I’m just an underdog making it, so it’s a little disappointing to see our work being attacked by someone we thought we’d be celebrating. Martinez O’Felan continued: “In addition, I have never met Leguizamo, but felt compelled to address the fact that he is attacking me and my work based on false information, because I am not actually Hollywood as he claimed: I am Born a 4th Generation Hispanic from Texas to an Iberian/Indigenous Mexican, and has been the visionary behind this project since its inception, I have also spent 16 years developing it around and with the support of Ms. What I mean when I say that is that ‘Latin’ means Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or Latin American heritage and roots are all branches of the root of ‘Latin’ So to me his sayings can be a great conversation piece for our people, because his comments represent the confusion and identity crisis in Hollywood right now within the Latin American community in America that claims to identify only as Latin. Anthony Hopkins as El Zorro in The mask of Zorro and Eli Wallach as Tucos The good the bad and the ugly and Calvera in Beautiful seven.Īlina from Cuba producer Martinez O’Felan, who responded to Leguizamo’s rant on Friday, said in a statement obtained by Deadline: “First, let’s take a historical look at the true Latinism in today’s mass culture of Hispanics, because territory doesn’t define one’s blood trail. The actor continued his Instagram post with another listing all the non-Latino actors who played Latino roles i.e. Leguizamo summed up: “It should be a level playing field, we should be able to play any role, but it doesn’t work that way. Or Latin people don’t want to see Latin people, they want to see white people in roles.
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I’ve been told so many times that you can’t have two Latin people in the movie or people will think it’s a Latin movie. Hernandez? Whether Oscar Isaac is Oscar Isaac Hernandez these days? Because they can’t. Appropriating our stories – no more of that. “Because…”There is no Latin actor who can wear that film.” Yeah, because you never get a chance to play something of value that had worthy value, that was an integral part of the plot that could get you a box office,” the actor added. The era where they told you to change your name, stay out of the sun, that only white Latinos or white Latinos would get a job and they weren’t even the main leads,” Leguizamo continued.
“There was a brown face: people paint themselves to see Latin in it” West Side Story….” “We couldn’t play our own roles,” says the To Wong Foo, thank you for everything! Julie Newmar actor. In Leguizamo’s follow-up post, which you can see below, he explains how he grew up and worked in Hollywood during a time “where Charleston Heston played a Mexican, where Eli Wallach played Mexican, where Pacino played Cuban and Puerto Rican, where Ben Affleck even in argo played a Latin man and Marisa Tomei played Latin women.” My Master plays Revuelta while Ana Villafañe plays Castro’s daughter Fernandez.
Specifically, in an Instagram post earlier today, he says, “Okay, look, I’m fine with James Franco, yo, okay?” while explaining, “I grew up in an era where Latin people couldn’t play Latin people on film.”Īlso earlier today Alina from Cuba producer John Martinez O’Felan released a statement defending the casting of Franco, who is of Latin Portuguese descent and in response to Leguizamo’s initial protest: “I want to point out that his strange comments, if you look at them on genealogy bases, a blind spot attack and lack factual content.”ĭeadline first told you about Franco playing El Comandante directed by Miguel Bardem Alina from Cuba by Oscar-nominated writer José Rivera ( The Motorcycle Diaries) and Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz on Cuban exile turned social advocate Alina Fernandez, aka Castro’s daughter, whose birth was the result of a passionate affair between the communist revolutionary leader and Natalia “Naty” Revuelta. After expressing his outrage at James Franco being cast as Fidel Castro in the independent feature film drama Alina from Cuba, Primetime Emmy winner John Leguizamo has laid out his stance on Hollywood casting of non-Latinos in Latino roles.
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