With all of the talented latin actors around, why was this movie casted with almost all non-latin actors? I thought Natalie Portman was ridiculous. And then a Swede is cast as Goya ????? Very good movie but i was thrown off by this old tradition that Hollywood cant seem to break.
shareAt least Javier Bardem, who is Latin (Spanish) plays Lorenzo, so we can be thankful for that.
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As far as I know, Goya actually looked quite similar to the Scandinavian actor who played him in this film. So I don't see a big problem here. You could rather lament about the film being in English.
shareAlmost all non-Latin actors? ...Only six of the Spanish characters were played by non-Latins. Seriously, if you look at the cast list, around 80% of the actors are Spanish.
Also, I don't think Natalie Portman counts as an "all-white" actress since she's from Israel and actually Jewish. Plus Randy Quaid and Stellan Skarsgård looked just like King Carlos IV and Francisco Goya. I have no problem with the casting since they looked so similar.
Joseph Bonaparte was played by a British actor, but I see no problem with that since he looked just like Joseph and French people don't exactly look that different from Brits.
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