Not even one Hispanic?
I don't mind the top stars being non-Hispanic, but most the characters were played by non-Hispanic actors.
It would not have hurt the filmmakers to have at least 2 of the main cast members be Hispanic.
but most the characters were played by non-Hispanic act
That was a realistic depiction of the actual characters in real life. The group on the plane were all from the upper class in Uruguay, which was almost exclusively European white. None of them had significant "Hispanic" antecedents, and all spoke English, though Spanish was their first language. The Strauch cousins were of German descent, Roy Harley English or Scottish, Nando, Russian/ Ukrainian, and so on. None were ethnically "Hispanic" in American terms.
Had the film shown their rescue by Chilean ranchers, then they could logically use Hispanic actors for that, as the Chilean population is much more mixed ethnically.
They actually did a good job making some actors look startlingly like the characters they portrayed; the actor who played Carlitos is a good example. share
None of them had significant "Hispanic" antecedents
wrong..
1. 'hispanic' is a CULTURAL term, not an ethnic term.. they were all hispanic: they had spanish names, they belonged to a hispanic culture and spoke spanish as their native language.. whether some of their parents had partial backgrounds in countries other than spain, does not make them any less 'hispanic'..
2. algorta, delgado, fernandez, inciarte, rodriguez and parrado are all spanish surnames..
again, hispanics can be euro/white, black or anything in between.. these guys just happened to have white/euro ancestry, that's all.. but they were all hispanics whose parents hailed primarily from spain, italy or germany if i had to guess..
here's a reference you might grasp a bit more readily: in the united states, the largest and most predominant ethnic ancestry among whites is german.. yet that does not make german-americans any less CULTURALLY american..
the op has a valid point.. they could've certainly made an effort to cast hispanic actors who fit the euro ethnic profile of uruguayans.. however, the fact that they chose to go with american actors really didn't affect the outcome as most uruguayans are ethnically european and thus look really no different from their white american counterparts..
it wasn't the fall from her 16th-floor penthouse that killed her, it was the landing share
None of the Andes Survivors seem to have a problem with the casting so if it was OK with them no-one really has a reason to complain.
Also the actor who played Fraga (Carlos Roque in real life), Jose Zuniga, was born in Honduras.