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John Leguizamo Criticizes James Franco Being Cast as Fidel Castro: ‘He Ain’t Latino!”


https://www.indiewire.com/2022/08/john-leguizamo-slams-james-franco-fidel-castro-casting-1234748927/

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Oh yes that guy who played an Italian plumber I remember him.

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Yeah and that french, crippled (!) painter.

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These days he's only fit to reprise his role as a clown.

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So Franco cannot play a Cuban even though Castro was white by the way.

But those same people will be amazingly silent on Jodie Turner Smith playing a white women and constant race swaps.

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Their cognitive dissonance will allow them to be massive hypocrites about it as usual.

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I think Franco might have some Spanish ancestry, but is it enough?

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Both himself and Fidel are the descendants of Europeans to "the Americas".

What's the big issue that Fidels ancestors were Spanish and Francos was a mixture including Portuguese and French?

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Al Pacino's not Latino, yet he played the main parts in Scarface and Carlito's Way, where was Leguizamo's criticism back then?!

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reading those quotes by him seems he's gone off the deep end,

if anything, Latinos and blacks are over-represented in hollyweird these days & it's been like that for at least a decade

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Go on youtube and look up television from the 1980s with the commercials intact. Hollywood solved it's "diversity" problem a long time ago.

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James Franco is Jewish! Thats why he i so loved.

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Except by the women he sexually abused.

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People from failure cultures that were bitchslapped by whites tend to take comfort in convenient notions of unfairness.

Due to a misplaced sense of guilt, America will eventually elevate these people to position of serious power. Then you're fucked.

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And Ana de Armas isn’t Scottish, yet she played Marilyn Monroe, one of the whitest actresses ever born.

So stop being a fucking hypocrite, Leguizamo.

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Your logic doesn’t pass the smell test.

Let’s say you’re right, two wrongs don’t make a right.

Leguizamo has worked his ass off since the early 90’s, just look up his filmography. The man has paid his dues, been in some truly great films.

You can’t just disregard what he’s saying because you find some examples of white actors getting screwed out of roles. How many Latin superheroes can you name? Or how about leading Hispanic actors or actresses in popular franchises? Statistically it’s almost impossible to see so few Hispanics in substantial Hollywood leading roles.

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The hell are you babbling about?

He’s a hypocrite.

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You’re a racist POS. Learn how to write paragraphs you inbred idiot.

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Bat Manuel is a latin superhero from the show The Tick. And Vin Deisel leads a popular franchise as well as Michelle Rodriguez.

Its not right or wrong to cast an actor in a role, its called acting. If they can do a good job thats what is needed.

As others mentioned he did play Luigi and I enjoyed Johns performance. He's only spouting this nonsense because of how hyper pc and racist the left has become. Everything is so racially focused with those guys. Also some actors just get salty.

Apparently Warwick Davis (I love that guy) had some disparaging words about Peter Dinklage saying something like "He owes all his success to me, I paved the way, etc"...come on man. Just say you're happy the new guy in town is doing well and keep your grace.

If John didnt at least recommend an actor he thinks would be better than Franco he should just be quiet

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Do you even know what the Hispanic population is in the United States? How can you justify Hollywood using 99.99% whites and only .01% Latinos? The math doesn’t remotely add up, not even close

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"Leguizamo has worked his ass off since the early 90’s, just look up his filmography. The man has paid his dues, been in some truly great films."


hahahahah! leguizamo's existance in hollywoods is to be the "token latino guy". when they need a token latino, they get him. he fill quota.

he ruined the good action film exectutive decision. he annoy kurt russel so much that kurts attacked him because he couldnt stand his bullshits for one more second! read about it on imdb, it true! kurt couldnt stand this token because token leguizmo was only in film because of quota, not talent!

he also ruin casualites of war.

that is why he talk so much now. empty can rattle most. he know he only has career as token. he is insult to latino actors who do have talent!

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How did he ruin executive decision? Please explain in detail how he ruined it. (Don’t worry, I know you won’t bother because you’re talking out of your ass)

Who are these better Latino actors? Go ahead, I could use a good laugh.

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