Robert Downey jr. latino???

And anyway, it's called ACTING so it doesn't matter what one's ethnicity is.

Lol OP needs to get an Education sure the journalist is Latino and he is White...
pic of Steve Lopez
http://www.mainlinetoday.com/Main-Line-Today/January-2009/One-Book-One -Philadelphia-event/Lopez_Steve_cr_Gilles-Mingasson.jpg

There's no reason RDJ shouldn't portray him

well Robert Downey Jr. got an oscar nom for playing a black guy in Tropic Thunder, so im sure he could pull off latino, but i don't think Steve Lopez was really latino.

Latino is race its called HISPANIC duh

Don't surround yourself with yourself. Move on back two squares.

Believe it or not, Latinos can look white. Some Spaniards look pretty white, as do some Argentinians and even (gasp!) some Mexicans. I'm Mexican and I look straight up white.

Spaniards are not Latino. Latino = Latin American

Spaniards are white. Many Argentinians are white as well. not just "look white"

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Lol, Spaniards ARE WHITE, some of them lighter than others, like what happens with Greeks, Russians or Italians.

HISPANIC means LATIN AMERICANS or NATIVES OF SPANISH-CONQUERED AMERICAS.
It's funny how Spanish people are thought to be of the same ethnicity of latin american guys in the States.


Spaniards have a bit of arab blood in them (they were ruled by the moors for a couple of years) hence the exotic look of some of their celebs like Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem or Penélope Cruz.


Argentinians, Uruguayans and Chileans are almost 100% white nowadays, since the Spanish conquerors gave the feisty native tribes of those lands the "English treatment": EXTERMINATION, that's why people of those nations have almost no trace of native american blood in them.


On the other hand, the rest of Latin America's tamer native tribes were enslaved but not exterminated, and eventually they paired up with the white minorities (mostly spanish), mixing their fenotype (ethnic looks) into what's commonly known nowadays as "latino", a couple of examples could be Andy Garcia, John Leguizamo, Danny Trejo, Sofía Vergara, Leonor Varela, Jennifer López, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria or "Che" Guevara.


Some latinos look even similar to the african fenotype since they got mixed heritage from native americans, whites and blacks, like Rihanna or Zoe Saldaña.


Some latinos can pass off as whites despite the fact that they have direct latinamerican descent, like Cameron Díaz, Christina Aguilera, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Andy Garcia or Guillermo Del Toro.


By the way, López is a Spanish surname, just like Hernández, Díaz, Aguilera or García.
Now, the fact someone has a Spanish surname doesn't mean he has direct Spanish descent. Just like some african americans with English surnames, natives from latin american land adopted Spanish surnames too.

All in all, genetics are pretty inconsistent, so all that ethinicity and race stuff is eventually becoming irrelevant nowadays. Still, that doesn't change the previous facts I pointed out. To sum it up: yes Downey Jr. could play a latino, despite the fact he has Scottish, Russian, Jewish, German and Irish blood in him. The native jews looked pretty similar to the arab people, so there you go why Robert has a bit of a "latino" look. Oh, and his real name should be Robert Elias Jr., which actually sounds pretty latino, but is actually Jewish.

Hope that clears this all up a bit.



now this is acting: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2458172160/tt1528718

-- Smith is a white name, that must mean Will Smith is white!!!!


I JUST DIED! That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Thank you for that. LOL.

I also love the posters here who clearly don't understand the difference between races and ethnicities

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up

Steve Lopez is a white guy whose ancestors come from Spain and Italy. Some Spaniards and Italians can be a bit swarthy, but Steve isn't really. Robert Downey Jr. even appears to have a slightly darker complexion than the real Steve Lopez.

Sure, they could have chosen a white Latino like Andy Garcia to play Steve Lopez, but it certainly wasn't necessary. And having RDJ on the movie poster is more of a draw anyway :).

This is hilarious! My husband's grandfather on the paternal side was from Guatemala. Everyone else in his family Caucasian by way of European ancestry. Our last name is Palacios. Therefore my husband has a Latino last name and does not consider himself to be Hispanic, nor is he Latino.

Was that clear enough?