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John Leguizamo Says He Avoided the Sun ‘For Years’ to Stay Light-Skinned


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https://variety.com/2022/film/news/john-leguizamo-sun-light-skinned-roles-1235163979/

John Leguizamo says he once lost a role to a white actor because the director told him the movie couldn't 'have 2 Latin people' in it

"The Latino population is larger than the white population in California, and yet we are not represented accordingly. That is cultural apartheid,"

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The director didn't want to tell him he was wrong for the part so he said 2 latin people in the film would be too much.

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He will say anything that keeps him in the media cycle and might get him a job.

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John Leguizamo is speaking out about the discrimination he’s faced throughout his career and continues to experience.

In an interview published Wednesday, the American actor and comedian of Colombian-Puerto Rican descent told Insider about an “unspoken Latin quota” in Hollywood — the belief that there can be too many Latino people in a film.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-leguizamo-lost-role-discrimination_n_63767518e4b0e818be4aeddd

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John Leguizamo should stop his hatred for whites. In the not too distant future this fury, this hate, will come back at him.

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