So Angry on SFU


Why is her character so angry and yelling all the time? It totally feeds the stereotype. She was the worst part of SFU.

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She is an actress. She was playing a role. How old are you - 12?

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This isn't Telenova -- it's a sad Latina stereotype. If that was the goal, perfect acting.

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Her character was in a bad marriage. Of course she was angry.

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Because everyone was angry in six feet under.

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Terrible actress, terrible character. You're obviously not even mature enough to even be posting here, let alone anywhere online. Next time you have an urge to make a snarky, asinine response to a legitimate post, do all of us a favour and spare us your hopeless stupidity -- just go look in a mirror instead and ask yourself how old you are over and over again until you get bored with staring at your immature lack of personality.

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She's yet another example of Hollywood casting a Puerto Rican as a Mexican character -- similar BS in "Dexter" but with Puerto Ricans playing Cubans. Now, given that "Six Feet Under" takes place in Los Angeles and is filmed on location in Los Angeles, a city where the majority population is of Mexican background or descent, with plenty of local Latin talent to choose from, why do the casting directors almost always prefer casting those of Puerto Rican background (overwhelmingly from the Bronx, with a few from Boston and Chicago) for Mexican and "generic" Latin characters?

This goes back to Jennifer Lopez in roles like "Selena" and Jimmy Smits in "L.A. Law" -- both Puerto Ricans from the Bronx playing Mexicans. The second largest Latin population in Los Angeles are Central Americans and even they get tossed aside, even though they're culturally and linguistically closer to Mexicans than Puerto Ricans ever will be.

It is unfathomably annoying to constantly hear Puerto Ricans with very obvious Puerto Rican accents (usually of the Bronx variety) trying to be passed off as Mexicans, Cubans, even South Americans!

And this particular Puerto Rican actress, with her grotesquely saccharinchipmunk skunk facial characteristics, is particularly offensive in the most hideously absurd fashion. Just plain gross.

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You need to lighten up about Puerto Ricans playing Mexicans, etc. I'm not saying we don't need more diversity when it comes to casting. We definitely do. But European actors are cast as other Europeans all the time. Swedish actors play German characters. British actors play French characters. French actors play Danish characters. Unless the acting is unconvincing, you need to suspend your belief and just go with it.

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